Women Have a Greater Capacity to Compensate for Brain Damage in a Type of Hereditary Dementia

The finding suggests that sex is a determining biological factor in the evolution of this hereditary form of dementia, and opens the door to a medicine of more precision sensitive to the differences between women and men. The article has been published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia magazine, official publication of the Alzheimer’s Association, and is framed in a series of three scientific papers on gender differences in clinical and biological manif…