Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) affects 1 in 10 women, roughly five million nationwide, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition to infertility, PCOS increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders鈥攁nd there is no cure.
The name suggests it originates in the ovaries, but Aleisha Moore, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Kent State鈥檚 Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI), believes the origin will be found in the brain.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a multimodal disease, and there are many things that lead to it,鈥� Moore said. 鈥淏ut what we鈥檝e found is that changes in the brain are likely one of the major contributors.鈥�
The National Institutes of Health certainly thinks Moore is onto something; the agency recently awarded her its most prestigious research training grant, a K99/R00 鈥淧athway to Independence Award鈥濃€攁 first for Kent State.
Read the full article in the 2019 麻豆精选Research Review Magazine at www.kent.edu/research/kent-state-research-review-2019/news/fertile-ground.
