“There is a elementary organic distinction between men and women in how they reply to stress on the mobile degree, in each mice and other people,” John Cirrito, Ph.D., an creator of the research and affiliate professor of neurology, stated in a press release. “We do not assume that stress is the only real issue driving the intercourse distinction in Alzheimer’s illness. There are a lot of different variations between women and men—in hormones, life-style, [and] different illnesses they’ve—that undoubtedly contribute not directly. However that stress is driving one side of this intercourse distinction I believe could be very doubtless.”