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Pauline Maki, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

Email : pmaki@psych.uic.edu
Phone : (312) 996-6941
Fax : (312) 413-8837

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University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Psychiatry
Center for Cognitive Medicine (MC913)
912 S. Wood St. Rm. 828
Chicago IL 60612-7327 USA

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Pauline M. Maki
, Ph.D. directs a comprehensive program of research on treatments that influence the rate of cognitive aging. Her primary focus over the last 8 years has been the effects of sex steroid hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone on age-related changes in cognition and brain function. The program comprises a series of observational studies and clinical intervention trials. She uses neuropsychological and neuroimaging tools (i.e., positron emission tomography and structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging) in to study estrogen replacement, botanical treatments for menopausal symptoms, testosterone supplementation, premature ovarian failure, menstrual cycle, endogenous estrogens, hormone suppression, and SERMs.

Dr. Maki is a co-investigator in the Women’s Health Initiative Study of Cognitive Aging, a 6-year randomized study of cognitive aging in a large subsample (n = 2300) of women enrolled in the Randomized Hormone Replacement Trial of the Women's Health Initiative. She is a co-investigator on a parallel, randomized trial for the study Cognition in the Study Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (Co-STAR) involving 1200 women, as well as more than 10 other clinical trials examining hormone effects on cognition and brain functioning.

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