seX & whY Episode 7 Part 2: Sex and Gender Differences in Concussions
Release Date: 06/13/2018
Sex and Gender Differences in Aging
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Six of seX & whY: Sex and Gender Differences in Aging Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guest: Dr Haag is a researcher in molecular epidemiology who studies human biological aging at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Background - Dr Haag has a PhD in functional genomics and Post Doc in genetic and molecular epidemiology. She studies telomeres and molecular association with telomere length, she also has experience in molecular biology and computer science. Definitions and discussion points from podcast - a new field of biomedical science that looks at how the...
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Global Health and Pandemic Responsiveness Through a Sex and Gender Lens Part 2
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Five of seX & whY, Part 2: Global Health and Pandemic Responsiveness Through a Sex and Gender Lens Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guests: McKinzie Gales and Emelie Yonally Phillips – Global Health Fellow at the CDC and co-lead for Phase I of the multi-agency SAGER IOA project aimed at facilitating better collection, analysis, and use of sex-disaggregated data and gendered data for outbreak response. – Global Health consultant (Epicentre/MSF) and core member of the Integrated Outbreak Analytics initiative ...
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Global Health and Pandemic Responsiveness Through a Sex and Gender Lens Part 1
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Five of seX & whY: Global Health and Pandemic Responsiveness Through a Sex and Gender Lens Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guests: – Fellow at the CDC and co-lead for Phase I of the multi-agency SAGER IOA project aimed at facilities' better collection, analysis, and use of sex-disaggregated data and gendered data for outbreak response. – Global Health consultant and core member of the Integrated Outbreak Analytics initiative Definitions IOA - Integrated Outbreak Analytics SAGER - Sex and Gender Equity in Research The Integrated Outbreak...
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Sex and Gender Differences in Conflict - Part 2
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Four of seX & whY: Sex and Gender Differences in Conflict, Part 2 Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guest: Joyce Benenson, lecturer of evolutionary biology at Harvard and author of the book In this podcast we continue our discussion about women interacting with each other at the workplace and how women often manage hierarchy differently than men. We got into a spirited discussion about a question posted on a female physician’s list serve querying whether women physicians want to be addressed as “Doctor” by other staff members. (My own preference was “yes” in...
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Sex and Gender Differences in Conflict - Part 1
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Four of seX & whY: Sex and Gender Differences in Conflict, Part 1 Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guest: Joyce Benenson, lecturer of evolutionary biology at Harvard and author of the book Warriors and Worriers Here is a link to Dr Benenson’s book . This book dives deep into the evolutionary roots of human behavior and Dr Benenson makes a very clear and well referenced case that human males and females have evolved from slightly different playbooks. The root of this difference is sexual selection in that adaptions and behaviors that optimize the chance...
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Issues Surrounding Men’s Health - Part 2
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Three of seX & whY: Issues Surrounding Men’s Health, Part 2 Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guests: Peter Baker – Twitter: Dominick Shattuck has a PhD in psychology and does Global Health Work at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Main topics discussed: Challenges and barriers associated with optimizing men’s mental health and the role of men in reproductive health-related issues. Men’s mental health is important not just for men but for the health of communities....
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Issues Surrounding Men’s Health - Part 1
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Three of seX & whY: Issues Surrounding Men’s Health, Part 1 Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guests: Peter Baker – Twitter: Dominick Shattuck has a PhD in psychology and does Global Health Work at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Here is a of Peter Baker’s publications including Here is a of Dominick Shattuck’s publications Take home points Somewhat ironically even though most major health related organizations are dominated by men in...
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Sex, Drugs, and Rats
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-Two of seX & whY: Sex, Drugs, and Rats Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guest: Dr Irv Zucker, Faculty at UC Berkley since 1966. Interests include behavioral endocrinology, chronobiology, and sex differences in pharmacology General discussion Many times, the worlds of basic science and human clinical trials do not overlap to the degree that they should. Greater coordination between the two silos, especially as it comes to the examination of sex differences, would likely produce more robust, higher quality science that would benefit a greater number of...
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Sex and Gender Differences in Opioid Use Disorder
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty-One of seX & whY: Opioid Use Disorder Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guests: Dr Alyson McGregor, author of Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It Dr Lauren Walter Here is link to American Psychiatric Association DSM 5 diagnosis for opioid use disorder from the . Essentially the disorder is defined by continued craving and use of opioids despite significant social and professional consequences caused by its use. This podcast is on sex and gender differences in opioid use disorder. Although sex (s) and gender (g) are...
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Interview With Dr Shirin Heidari Part 2: Gendro - Advancing Sex and Gender Equity in Science Research
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Show Notes for Episode Twenty of seX & whY: Interview With Dr Shirin Heidari Part 2: Gendro - Advancing Sex and Gender Equity in Science Research Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guest: Shirin Heidari PhD, virologist and experimental oncologist, founding President of Gendro. Part 2 of Interview with Dr Shirin Heidari This podcast focuses on Dr Heidari’s work on systematically integrating the variables of sex and gender into different access points along the research pipeline. She helped start an organization called which is dedicated to this mission. The three major gatekeeping posts...
info_outlineShow Notes for Podcast Seven of seX & whY, Part 2
Host: Jeannette Wolfe
Guests:
Dr. Neha Raukar, Emergency and Sports Medicine Physician
Katherine Snedaker, Executive Director of Pink Concussions
Topic: Sex and Gender Differences in Concussions
This is part II of our discussion about concussion with Katherine Snedaker and Neha Rauker.
Today’s podcast focuses on recovery and prevention.
Here are the take home points:
- Concussion research is rapidly changing, and it is important to stay up to date on the literature
- There is a large NCAA study whose results should be released soon
- Concussion treatment has to be individualized as symptoms can vary tremendously both within and between the sexes. Overall, however, women appear to be at greater risk for having an increased clustering of symptoms and a prolonged recovery
- Cocoon therapy (being isolated in a dark room with no stimulation) is out and has been replaced by the concept of “relative rest” which is the idea that you can do activities that don’t exacerbate symptoms
- Screen time has pros and cons
- Cons
- the contrast of light between the screen and the environment and scrolling can lead to vestibular irritation
- Much of the activities associated with “screen time” also increase cognitive demands
- Pros
- It often helps people stay connected with their social circles which can decrease feelings of isolation and depression
- The new FDA blood test does not test whether or not someone has a concussion, it tests for specific proteins (UCH-L1 and GFAP) that are released by the brain into the blood after a severe injury and correlates with the likelihood of finding an intracranial bleed on CT.
- Prevention research and intervention targets multiple different levels including:
- Overall awareness
- Equipment- both in design and in proper fit
- Training of coaches/trainers
- Rule Enforcement
- Locker room culture
- Although sports related concussions get the most press, traumatic brain injuries lead to more than 2.8 million (2013 CDC data) emergency visits per year with car accidents, physical assaults and falls being big contributors.
- There is currently a large gap in treatment access and ownership for non-sports related TBI
- Cons
Thank you again to my guests!