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NeurologyLive Top Expert Interviews: September 2021
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Expert clinicians offer their perspectives on the ongoing shortage of neurologists, transgender and gender-diverse individuals with migraine, artificial intelligence and neuroimaging, Student Sleep Health Week 2021, and the importance of rehabilitation therapy in multiple sclerosis.
The NeurologyLive team has been as busy as always bringing you the latest clinical news and research updates in neurology over the last month, including conducting several interviews with experts across a number of different and varying topics.
Among these included an exploration of the ongoing shortage of neurologists and its effect on care, research into the transgender and gender-diverse with migraine, the future of artificial intelligence and neuroimaging, takeaways from Student Sleep Health Week 2021, and the importance of rehabilitation therapy in multiple sclerosis care, among several other topics.
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Expanding Research for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients: Jennifer Hranilovich, MD
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“Transgender individuals want to know more about the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy—which is relatively new, especially in the US—on their own health, so putting some more study into this understudied population is important. I think it's important to understand that transgender individuals have been stigmatized, and so even their clinical interaction with the medical profession has been somewhat limited by that, it's been disincentivized.”
As a historically stigmatized and underserved population, transgender and gender-diverse patients with headache have not had access to data pertaining to their health, particularly with the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT). Jennifer Hranilovich, MD, assistant professor, pediatrics and neurology, Headache Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine/Children's Hospital Colorado, spoke with NeurologyLive on the importance of research for gender minorities, and the next steps for those in the headache and migraine space.
Hranilovich provided additional comment on the general importance of research, in that studying the effect of GAHT on headache can also inform studies about the effect of hormones in all patients’ brains. Recent steps have been taken she said, including the establishment of the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office by the National Institutes of Health in 2015.
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