There is a great hole in our understanding of the brain. A woman’s -shaped woman hole. While neuroscience has given us innumerable ideas about how our minds work, history reveals an important supervision: most of these studies were carried out in both men and women without considering that there could be differences between their brains. Recently we have begun to realize the impact of this blind spot. For example, research has now shown that the brain is dramatically remodeled after giving birth, while another study found that the fluctuations of the menstrual cycle affect how the brain works.
This supervision not only leaves us in the dark about how reproductive stages affect the brain, but questions many other broader conclusions in neuroscience. It is also what inspired the neuroscientist converted into an entrepreneur Emilė Radytė to co-confound a start-up called Samphire Neuroscience, where it is using non-invasive brain stimulation to transform our understanding of the conditions that predominantly affect women, from premenstrual syndrome and pain vintage. postpartum depression. New scientist Radyt asked how a better understanding of women’s neuroscience could change the way we treat mental health problems, and about the implications of this emerging field for everything we thought we knew about the human brain.
Helen Thomson: you trained as neuroscientist. How did you use that experience to develop a brain stimulation device?
Emilė Radytė: During my degree, I worked as an emergency doctor. I realized that about 50 percent of our cases were actually psychiatric emergencies. You think of paramedics helping someone who is bleeding or has a heart attack, but I was seeing addiction, suicide …
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