Professor of psychological and brain sciences, UC Santa Barbara
Jacobs runs a lab at UC Santa Barbara whose Healthy Aging Study looks at brain and cognitive function in women and men in midlife. She is affiliated with the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative and studies how menopause relates to later brain health.
WHAT TO WATCHEarly results from the Longitudinal Menopause Project, which will follow the same women across the menopause transition.
Researchers found a set of blood proteins that shift during menopause and were linked to poorer thinking and a modestly higher Alzheimer's risk in older women.
