Pauline Maki, MD, PhD
Professor
Mentor, Clinical ADRD
Department of Psychiatry
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About
Dr. Maki has directed a program of NIH-funded research on women's cognitive aging and dementia, with a particular focus on the menopause. She studied the effects of hormone therapy and alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms on cognition and brain function in women. Two recent R01s focus on whether women with vasomotor symptoms might benefit from hormone therapy. As multi-PI in an NIA-funded R01, she is now examining the relationship between vasomotor symptoms, cognition and brain function, as her preliminary work shows that objectively measured hot flashes are associated with poor memory, white matter hyperintensities and alterations in the resting state network. In another NIA-funded R01, she is co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial examining a novel intervention for vasomotor symptoms.