The Center for Women's Health Research is hosting the Helen I. Moorehead-Laurencin, MD, Sex and Gender Research Forum on Thursday, October 27.

The forum's topic is Sex and Gender Differences in Cognition and Neurobiology and it will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Four internationally renowned experts will be presenting on the topic and there will be a poster session on the research being done at Drexel University and Drexel University College of Medicine.

The presentations for the day will be as follows:

• Rebecca Jordan-Young, PhD
  Barnard College Women's Studies
  "Evaluation of Hormonal Sex Differentiation of the Brain and Its Impact on Health Outcomes"
• Lise Eliot, PhD (The Doris Willig, MD Lecture)
  The Chicago Medical School
  "Neuroplasticity and Children's Gender Development"
• Sylvie Goldman, PhD
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  "Gender and Autism"
• Donald W. Pfaff, PhD
  The Rockefeller University
  "The Impact of Hormones on Brain and Behavior"

 

The Center for Women's Health Research is hosting the Helen I. Moorehead-Laurencin, MD, Sex and Gender Research Forum on Thursday, October 27.