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Depressive symptoms are increased in the early perimenopausal stage in ethnically diverse human immunodeficiency virus-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected womenPauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Menopause 19:1215-23. 2012..In a cross-sectional analysis, we evaluated the association of menopausal stage and vasomotor symptoms with depressive symptoms in an ethnically diverse cohort of women with a high prevalence of HIV...
Minireview: effects of different HT formulations on cognitionPauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 912 South Wood Street, Chicago Illinois 60612, USA
Endocrinology 153:3564-70. 2012..Small RCT show neutral or beneficial effects of other progestins on memory. Overall, RCT indicate that type of progestogen is a more important determinant of the effects of HT on memory than type of estrogen...
The timing of estrogen therapy after ovariectomy--implications for neurocognitive functionPauline M Maki
Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab 4:494-5. 2008
Intramuscular testosterone treatment in elderly men: evidence of memory decline and altered brain functionPauline M Maki
Center for Cognitive Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Institute MC 913, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:4107-14. 2007..Recent clinical trials of im testosterone in eugonadal men suggest positive effects on verbal memory, but other studies find no effect...
Mechanisms of action of estrogen in the brain: insights from human neuroimaging and psychopharmacologic studiesPauline M Maki
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Semin Reprod Med 27:250-9. 2009..Overall, we conclude that estrogen interacts with cholinergic and serotonergic systems to affect hippocampal and frontal cortical brain areas and thereby enhance memory, particularly at the retrieval stage...
HIV, cognition and womenPauline M Maki
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 19:204-14. 2009..Such studies will also address questions regarding involvement of the hippocampus and verbal memory, which may be of particular significance among HIV+ women...
Impairments in memory and hippocampal function in HIV-positive vs HIV-negative women: a preliminary studyP M Maki
Departments of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 72:1661-8. 2009..Our aim was to conduct a preliminary investigation of episodic memory and its neural correlates in HIV-infected and at-risk uninfected women...
Hormone therapy and cognitive functionPauline M Maki
Neuropsychiatric Institute, MC 913, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Hum Reprod Update 15:667-81. 2009..This issue is clinically relevant because declines in verbal memory are the earliest predictor of Alzheimer's disease and declines in executive function are central to some theories of normal, age-related changes in cognition...
Hormone therapy and cognitive function: is there a critical period for benefit?P M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Cognitive Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Institute MC913, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA
Neuroscience 138:1027-30. 2006..Other forms of hormone therapy, other cognitive domains, and cyclic hormone regimens may not conform to this "critical period hypothesis." Further research is needed to test the validity and limits of this hypothesis...
Effects of botanicals and combined hormone therapy on cognition in postmenopausal womenPauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Menopause 16:1167-77. 2009..The aim of this study was to characterize the effects of red clover, black cohosh, and combined hormone therapy on cognitive function in comparison to placebo in women with moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms...
Summary of the National Institute on Aging-sponsored conference on depressive symptoms and cognitive complaints in the menopausal transitionPauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Menopause 17:815-22. 2010....
A systematic review of clinical trials of hormone therapy on cognitive function: effects of age at initiation and progestin usePauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Cognitive Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Institute MC913, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1052:182-97. 2005..Without firm evidence of benefit to younger women, it is prudent to caution early postmenopausal women about the cognitive risks observed in WHI, recognizing the low likelihood of dementia at that age...
Perimenopausal use of hormone therapy is associated with enhanced memory and hippocampal function later in lifePauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Brain Res 1379:232-43. 2011..These results suggest that perimenopausal use of HT might confer long-term benefits to verbal memory and the brain systems underlying verbal memory. More generally, the results support the critical window hypothesis...
Objective hot flashes are negatively related to verbal memory performance in midlife womenPauline M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Menopause 15:848-56. 2008..To test the hypothesis that hot flashes specifically relate to verbal memory performance by examining the relationship between objective hot flashes and cognitive test performance in women with moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms...
Hormone therapy in menopausal women with cognitive complaints: a randomized, double-blind trialP M Maki
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Neurology 69:1322-30. 2007..To evaluate the effects of hormone therapy (HT) on cognition and subjective quality of life (QoL) in recently postmenopausal women with cognitive complaints...
HIV+ men and women show different performance patterns on procedural learning tasksEileen Martin
University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 33:112-20. 2011..Additional studies are needed to address directly the possibility of sex differences in HAND and the possibility that women might be more vulnerable to the effects of HIV and substance dependence on some neurocognitive functions...
Hormone therapy and risk for dementia: where do we go from here?P M Maki
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Gynecol Endocrinol 19:354-9. 2004..Additional clinical studies are needed to understand the external generalizability of the WHIMS results to populations of women for whom HT remains an indication...
Effects of combination estrogen plus progestin hormone treatment on cognition and affectSusan M Resnick
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224 6825, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:1802-10. 2006..Some studies of hormone treatment in postmenopausal women suggest benefits on specific cognitive functions, particularly memory...
Re: Prospective assessment of estrogen replacement therapy and cognitive functioning: atherosclerosis risk in communities studyPauline M Maki
Am J Epidemiol 156:785; author reply 785. 2002
Implicit memory varies across the menstrual cycle: estrogen effects in young womenPauline M Maki
Gerontology Research Center Box 03, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:518-29. 2002..Mood did not vary across the cycle phases. Overall, the findings suggest that estrogen may facilitate the automatic activation of verbal representations in memory...
Nulliparity and late menopause are associated with decreased cognitive declineRobert N McLay
Department of Psychiatry, Naval Medical Center San Diego, California, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 15:161-7. 2003..These results suggest that greater lifetime exposure to endogenous estrogen may be associated with less age-related cognitive decline...
Complex actions of sex steroids in adipose tissue, the cardiovascular system, and brain: Insights from basic science and clinical studiesJudith L Turgeon
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition, and Vascular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
Endocr Rev 27:575-605. 2006..Only then will we have a better understanding of what hormonal compounds should be used in which populations of women and at what stages of menopausal/postmenopausal life...
Potential importance of early initiation of hormone therapy for cognitive benefitPauline M Maki
Menopause 13:6-7. 2006
The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: findings and implications for treatmentMichael C Craig
Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Lancet Neurol 4:190-4. 2005....
Estrogen effects on the hippocampus and frontal lobesPauline M Maki
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Cognitive Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Illinois 60612, USA
Int J Fertil Womens Med 50:67-71. 2005..Serotonin might play a critical role in these potential indirect benefits, and therapies that target these symptoms, even those without estrogenic actions, might have indirect benefits on cognition...
The Women's Health Initiative Study of Cognitive Aging (WHISCA): a randomized clinical trial of the effects of hormone therapy on age-associated cognitive declineSusan M Resnick
Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224 6825, USA
Clin Trials 1:440-50. 2004....
Effects of menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptive use on verbal memoryKristen L Mordecai
Department of Psychology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA
Horm Behav 54:286-93. 2008..Overall, these results suggest that verbal memory performance in premenopausal women varies across the cycle with OC use, but does not vary systematically with changes in endogenous estradiol...
Sex difference in cognitive response to antipsychotic treatment in first episode schizophreniaLeah H Rubin
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:290-7. 2008..Future studies of the neurocognitive effects of antipsychotic treatment may need to take potential sex differences in cognitive response into account...
A study of visuospatial working memory pre- and post-Gonadotropin Hormone Releasing Hormone agonists (GnRHa) in young womenMichael C Craig
Section of Brain Maturation PO50, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, UK
Horm Behav 54:47-59. 2008..Our study suggests that acute ovarian hormone withdrawal following GnRHa, and perhaps at other times, (e.g. following surgical menopause and postpartum) alters the neural circuitry underlying performance of VWM...
Gonadotropin hormone releasing hormone agonists alter prefrontal function during verbal encoding in young womenMichael C Craig
Section of Brain Maturation PO50, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:1116-27. 2007....
Research Grants
- Effects of Botanicals on Cognition in Midlife WomenPauline Maki; Fiscal Year: 2005..Recent findings of significant health risks associated with Prempro heighten the need for research into the effects of alternative therapies for menopausal symptoms on cognitive outcomes. ..
- Botanical Menopausal Therapies Mechanisms of CNS ActionPauline Maki; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Effects of Estradiol & Phytoestrogens on Stress ResponsivityPauline Maki; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Effects of Estradiol & Phytoestrogens on Stress ResponsivityPauline M Maki; Fiscal Year: 2010....
