Gallery Talk: Dr. Gillian Einstein on Women’s Brain Health and Elinor Carucci | Hannah Altman
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Saturday August 2 | 2 - 3 PM
Dr. Gillian Einstein, Professor of Psychology and the Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women's Brain Health and Aging at University of Toronto, and Adjunct Scientist at Baycrest and Women’s College Hospitals, shares her responses to the exhibition Elinor Carucci | Hannah Altman. In her day-to-day research, “The Einstein Lab studies how the structure and function of the brain is influenced by the context of people’s lives, especially sex and gender. These influences include hormones and genes, as well as culture, social environment and personal life experiences. In turn, these factors can influence our health and successful aging.”
Additionally, as Einstein writes, “I was an art history major as an undergraduate…. [and] we use arts-based methods as one approach to understanding the experience of memory loss in my lab.”
Einstein uses a methodology that she developed called, "Situated Neuroscience" that employs a combination of qualitative, quantitative, and physiological methods to explore how both sex and gender mediate women’s brain health.
