Happy Holiday Season from The BHEAM Lab @torontomet.bsky.social!
Follow us & sign up for the #bhammstudy in Toronto or Montreal to help us advance !!
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3) These memory deficits in postmenopausal females were associated with altered 🧠 activation and network connectivity involving the hippocampus & associated cortices - areas affected by aging & by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Crestol et al 2023, Kearley et al AAIC Abstract 2025).
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2) Postmenopausal females with high levels of cardiovascular risk factors performed worse on this memory task than those with lower risk factors (Kearley et al, 2025) /4
To date our research shows:
1) Our face-location memory task is sensitive & specific to detecting an acceleration of age-related memory decline in perimenopausal & postmenopausal females compared to middle-aged premenopausal females & males (Bhaskara et al, in prep; Lissaman et al 2024) /3
More than 3000 adults (18 - 65 yrs old) have enrolled! Of these > 500 have come in for cognitive testing & blood donation; and > 300 have undergone MRI imaging, including 188 middle-aged adults (40-65 yrs old) with task fMRI data. /2
The #BHAMMstudy has been ongoing since 2017 & is funded by CIHR, NSERC, CRC, CFI, & @torontomet.bsky.social
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Some of the #BHAMMstudy Toronto team visited Montreal this week to help our McGill/Douglas team members relaunch testing at our Montreal site!! Thanks to our waitlisted participants for their patience. We look forward to meeting you soon! #menopause #brainhealth
The @bheamlab.bsky.social has a new member! Welcome to Khaleesi !! We hope @mnrajah.bsky.social ‘s Harrison gets along with you 😊
Congratulations Sara Ahmed from the BHEAM Lab Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University on being a 2025 CIHR Vanier Scholar!!!
Read more about Sara’s research at:
www.torontomu.ca/graduate/fut...
Congratulations to Hallie Liu on being the first @bheamlab.bsky.social grad student to successfully defend her Masters degree!! 📜
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Dr. Rajah & colleagues were interviewed for @CBCNews by Journalist Jennifer Yoon to discuss “Why are more women diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease?”
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
The key to battling Dementia may lie in midlife. @torontomet.bsky.social researcher @mnrajah.bsky.social is leveraging AI, fMRI & deep health histories to study how biological sex, menopause & social factors shape brain aging. More: tinyurl.com/yake2vcx
@bheamlab.bsky.social @arts-tmu.bsky.social
Congratulations & good luck to former BHEAMLab postdoc Dr. Annalise LaPlume on starting her Tenure-track Asst Professor at Department of Psychology at @trentuniversity.bsky.social this week!!
They are very lucky to have you! Looking forward to seeing all the amazing science you will do there 🎊
Bon voyage Gabriela! Thank you for being a fantastic @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social Grad student & then an amazing @torontomet.bsky.social Lab Coordinator!! Best of luck in Europe!! You will be missed 🌸
Happy birthday to Hallie Liu, MA trainee @bheamlab.bsky.social TMU Psychology! 🥳🎂
Congratulations to BHEAM Lab Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University trainees M. Bhaskara & and H. Rai on receiving prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarships to support their research on the Brain Health at Midlife and Menopause (BHAMM) Study!
#womensbrainhealth #BHAMMStudy
A BIG congrats to Julia Kearley on being awarded an FRQS PhD Fellowship for her project entitled: “Investigating the impact of menopause and vascular risk on resting-state functional connectivity
and episodic memory in middle aged females”!!
#menopause #womensbrainhealth #cogneuro #aging
#BHAMMStudy stickers have arrived!!
Sign up & help us advance knowledge about brain health at midlife & menopause!
rajahlab.com/participate/
#neurosky #womenshealth #endalz
Congratulations to MSc trainee Hallie Lui on her first Conference Poster Presentation
at #CNS2025 @cogneuronews.bsky.social
Bravo 🙌🏽
🚨🗞️ Congratulations to Gabriela Vélez Largo & Abdel Halim Elshiekh, Ph.D. et al @mcgillu (IPN) & BHEAM Lab on publishing
“Slower Postencoding Stimulus Reaction Time Predicts Poorer Subsequent Source Memory and Increased Midline Cortical Activity” in @jocn.bsky.social
🚨🗞️ Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Julia Kearley et al @mcgillu & The BHEAM Lab @TMUPsych on the publication of “Association Between CAIDE Risk Score and Episodic #Memory in Middle-Aged Females: The Impact of Natural #Menopause” in Hormones & Behavior!
#BHAMMStudy
We also encourage interested postdocs to apply for the new harmonized 🇨🇦CRTS fellowships that are open to 🌎international applicants in collaboration with @mnrajah.bsky.social !
Find out more: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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Base starting salary is $60k + 21% benefits. The benefits offered are exceptional & include medical, dental, optometry & Rx coverage.
www.torontomu.ca/graduate/new...
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#neurojobs in 🇨🇦
The BHEAM Lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher with expertise in cognitive neuroscience of aging &/ dementia prevention who wants to pursue research that considers the influence of sex, gender, & social determinants of health on brain & cognitive ageing. 1/
The BHEAM Lab is growing!! We are seeking a new p/t RA to help with recruitment abs testing for the Brain Health at Midlife & Menopause (BHAMM) Study.
If you have experience with human participant testing & are passionate about health equity & women’s brain health, please apply!
The BHEAM Lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher interested in conducting health equity research in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, aging & dementia prevention!
Please share!
#neurojobs #neurosky
www.torontomu.ca/careers/rese...
Join this Canadian initiative to advance our understanding of women's brain health at midlife and during menopause *across diverse communities*, and help reduce the prevalence of dementia in females!
tinyurl.com/BHAMMStudy
#menopause #womensbrainhealth #endalz
