Overview

⏱️ Schedule:  Doors 18:30 → Talk 19:00→ Q&A → Mingle
🌐 Language: English

What if everything you've been told about your hormones — that they make you emotional, unpredictable, hard to study — was actually just science taking the easy way out?

For decades, women's brains have been significantly underrepresented in research. Too complex. Too variable. Too hormonal. The result: a staggering gap in our understanding of how the female brain actually works, and what happens to it across a lifetime of hormonal change.

In this talk, Dr. Goretti España Irla takes us on a journey through the female brain across a lifetime — from the menstrual cycle to perimenopause and beyond — exploring how hormones shape cognition, mood, and brain health in ways science is only beginning to understand.

What we'll cover

• Why has the female brain been so consistently overlooked by science?
• How do hormones influence the brain — across a cycle, across a decade, across a lifetime?
• Menopause gets the headlines, but perimenopause is where the real changes begin. What do we know?
• What is MappingPerimenopause, and why is this study at Charité Berlin a landmark moment for women's brain health?

Speaker

Dr. Goretti España Irla

Neurobiology of Hormonal Transitions — Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (CCM) & Institute of Gender in Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Dr. Goretti España Irla is a researcher at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, working across the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Institute of Gender in Medicine, where her research focuses on the neurobiology of hormonal transitions across a woman's lifetime.