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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 hormonal factors that influence cognitive functioning and mood in women. Her primary focus has been the effects of sex steroid hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone on cognition and brain function. Her research 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) to study estrogen therapy, botanical treatments for menopausal symptoms, testosterone supplementation, menstrual cycle phase, hormone suppression, and selective estrogen receptor modulators.

Dr. Maki was a co-PI on the Women's Health Initiative Study of Cognitive Aging and the Study Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (Co-STAR). She also directs the Neurocognitive Working Group of the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a large, multi-site longitudinal study of women with HIV.

Select publications

Maki PM , & Resnick SM. Longitudinal effects of estrogen replacement therapy on PET cerebral blood flow and cognition. Neurobiology of Aging. 2000, 21, 373-385.

Maki PM , Zonderman AB, & Resnick SM. Enhanced verbal memory in nondemented elderly estrogen users, Am. J. Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry. 2001, 158, 227-233.

Maki PM & Resnick SM. Effects of estrogen on patterns of brain activity at rest and during cognitive activity: A review of neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage. 2001, 14, 780-801.

Maki PM, Rich JB, & Rosenbaum R. Implicit memory varies across the menstrual cycle: Estrogen effects in young women. Neuropsychologia. 2002, 40, 518-529.

Maki PM . & Hogervorst E. HRT and cognitive decline. Ballieres Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2003, 17, 105-22.

Maki PM Resnick, SM Effects of hormone therapy on patterns of brain activation during cognitive activity: a review of neuroimaging studies. In Bergemann N, Resch F, Riecher-Rössler (Eds). Estrogen Effects on Psychiatric Diseases. Springer. 2004.

Resnick SM, Maki PM , Rapp SR, Espeland MA & Shumaker SA. The Women's Health Initiative Study of Cognitive Aging (WHISCA): A randomized clinical trial of the effects of hormone therapy on age-associated cognitive decline, Clinical Trials. 2004, 1, 440-450

Maki PM A systematic review of clinical trials of hormone therapy on cognitive function: Effects of age at initiation and progesterone use. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2005, 1052, 182-97.

Maki PM Hormone therapy and cognitive function: Is there a critical period for benefit? Neuroscience. 2006, 138, 1027-30.

Resnick SM, Maki PM , Rapp SR, Espeland MA, Brunner R, Coker LH, Granek IA, Hogan P, Ockene JK, Shumaker SA Effects of combination estrogen plus progestin hormone treatment on cognition and affect. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2006, 91, 1802-10.

Rubin LG, Haas G, Keshavan M, Sweeney J & Maki PM Sex difference in cognitive response to antipsychotic treatment in first episode schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007.

Maki PM , Gast MJ, Vieweg A, Burriss SW and Yaffe K. Hormone therapy in recently menopausal women with subjective cognitive complaints: a randomized, double-blind trial. Neurology. 2007, 69, 1322-30.

Maki PM , Ernst M, London E, Mordecai KL, Perschler P, Durso SC , Brandt J, Dobs A, Resnick SM Testosterone treatment in elderly men: Evidence of memory decline and altered brain function. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2007, 92, 4107-14

Maki PM , Drogos L, Shulman L., Banuvar, S., & Geller SG Objective hot flashes are negatively related to verbal memory performance in midlife women. Menopause. In Press.

Mordecai KL, Rubin LH & Maki PM . Effects of menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptive use on verbal memory. Hormones and Behavior. In Press.

Maki PM Menopause and anxiety: Immediate and long-term effects. Menopause. In Press.

Research Studies