The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative
The Ann S. Bowers WBHI is driven by a radically simple idea: progress in neuroscience will flourish when the health of men and women are valued equally.
Our Website: wbhi.ucsb.edu
Join the Monthly Seminar Series: bit.ly/3WPvLPD
- Congratulations on your Women's Health Access (WHAM) Edge Award, Dr. @laurapritschet.bsky.social! Thank you WHAM for supporting early-career investigators like Laura pursuing groundbreaking research. #BowersWBHI #StudyWomen #WomensBrainHealth #Maternalbrainhealth
- Laura and Prof. @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social’s team at the University of Pennsylvania are leading an innovative project to map brain trajectories across the perinatal period using data from electronic medical records, leveraging 25 years of clinical imaging data.
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- Join us today!
- Join us on Monday, December 8, 2025 at 8am PST/11am EST as Dr. Rebecca Thurston, PhD, FAMBR, FSBSM Professor in the Department of Psychiatry @University of Pittsburgh presents “Menopause, Its Symptoms, and Implications for Women’s Heart and Brain Health.” Register at tinyurl.com/bowerswbhi-s...
- Research week for Book 2! Visiting UC Santa Barbara: @emilyjacobs.bsky.social studying female brains across the lifespan, @mgurven.bsky.social and @amyboddy.bsky.social thinking carefully about how culture intersects with female bodily change… gonna be amazing
- Join us on Monday, December 8, 2025 at 8am PST/11am EST as Dr. Rebecca Thurston, PhD, FAMBR, FSBSM Professor in the Department of Psychiatry @University of Pittsburgh presents “Menopause, Its Symptoms, and Implications for Women’s Heart and Brain Health.” Register at tinyurl.com/bowerswbhi-s...
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- Thrilled to see HerBrain on #TIME Best Inventions of 2025! It shows how the anatomy of the brain changes week-by-week through pregnancy and postpartum 🧠 @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social !
- Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 💊 🍸 Risk for substance use disorder (SUD) rises in adolescence. Family history and biological sex play major roles in a person's level of SUD risk. New evidence suggests neural markers of SUD may exist before substance use starts - yet how these markers differ across sexes is not understood.
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- Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible Dr Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
- Turn up the heat with us. We have ONE week to ask @cagovernor Newsom to sign California’s AB-432 Menopause Care Equity Act. Live in California, have 30 seconds, and want to support the bill? Go to tinyurl.com/AB432-suppor... to let @cagovernor Newsom know that women’s health is not an elective.
- With the power of the people behind it, the California legislature just passed the Menopause Care Equity Act. This is history in the making—finally addressing a health gap that touches millions of women. Now, it’s down to one signature. @governor.ca.gov, the pen is in your hand. 🖊️
- Deep bow to the folks working around the clock and around the table to make this bill the law of the land. Remember, “progress is possible, but not guaranteed”. Add your voice—link in bio. @bauerkahan.bsky.social Halle Berry, Pauline Maki, Sen Monique Limon, Rajita Patil, @emilyjacobs.bsky.social
- Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology
- Congrats, Dr. Magdalena @magdamartinezga.bsky.social on your 2025 BBRF Young Investigator Grant, and thank you to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social! This grant will support her research on human brain changes linked to perinatal depression. #bowerswbhi
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- Congrats, Dr. Carina Heller, PhD @carinaheller.bsky.social & thanks to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social. Carina received the 2025 BBRF Young Investigator Grant, enabling her to further investigate the impact of hormonal contraceptives use in adolescence, especially for mental health. #Neuroscience
- 📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to info@wbhi.ucsb.edu and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊
- Keep your eyes on this rising star:
- Excited to share I’ve been awarded a 2-year @bbrfoundation Young Investigator Grant! This will support my work on brain changes linked to perinatal depression, building on my research in human maternal brain. Grateful to be at @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social with Dr. @emilyjacobs.bsky.social !
- We’re hiring! Pls share widely: In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred. Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
- Happy Friday, wherever your adventures take you today! PhD student Elle Murata spread the word “Study Women” from White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico. @ellemurata.bsky.social #BowersWBHI #Neuroscience #WomenInScience #Neuroimaging #Neuroendocrinology #WomensBrainHealth #Menopause
- 💪 ✅ You can take action today to increase women’s health equity. AB-432, California’s Menopause Care Equity Act, is on @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom’s desk. Here are 5 ways to move it forward. #AB432 #Menopausecare #menopausematters #bowerswbhi #womenshealthmatters #brainhealth #womensbrainhealth
- We’re thrilled to welcome @susanacarmona.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social to Santa Barbara as a Bowers WBHI Visiting Faculty Fellow to discuss the maternal brain #bowerswbhi #maternalbrainhealth #ucsb @magdamartinezga.bsky.social
- For too long, women have suffered in silence. We’re shining the spotlight on the need for menopause care. Learn more about AB-432 here: bit.ly/ab-432menopa... @emilyjacobs.bsky.social #AB432 #bowerswbhi #MenopauseMatters #Menopause #Menopausecare #womenshealthmatters #womensbrainhealth
- On Monday, Ann S. Bowers WBHI Director Emily Jacobs, PhD, testified for AB-432, California’s Menopause Care Equity Act. Updates are coming soon! More info about AB-432 here: bit.ly/ab-432menopa... #womenshealth #brainhealth
- Save the date: the Seminar Series will be back on Monday, September 8, 2025 at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific time. Please note, this time is different than usual since our speaker is based in Australia. @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #BrainMapping #WomensBrainHealth #BrainHealth
