About Me
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Dr. Lisa Mosconi, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology, and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The program includes the NIH-funded Women’s Brain Initiative, the award-winning Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, and the newly launched Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinical Trials Unit.
Dr. Mosconi holds a PhD degree in Neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine from the University of Florence, Italy. A world-renowned neuroscientist, she ranks in the top 1% of scientists of the past 20 years by official metrics. Recognized by The Times as one of the 17 most influential living female scientists and honored in ELLE 100: Women That Are Changing The World, Dr. Mosconi has been acclaimed as “the Mona Lisa of Neuroscience” by ELLE International.
Dr. Mosconi’s NIH-funded research is focused on the early detection and prevention of cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease in at-risk individuals, especially women, using brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Mosconi is passionately interested in how risk of memory loss and dementia can be prevented through the combination of appropriate medical care and lifestyle modifications involving diet, physical and intellectual fitness.
She is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, Canada #1 Health & Fitness, and The Sunday Times bestselling THE MENOPAUSE BRAIN (2024); of the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Der Spiegel bestselling THE XX BRAIN (2020); and of the Amazon bestselling BRAIN FOOD (2018), which have been translated into more than 15 languages each. Dr. Mosconi’s popular TED talk “How menopause affects the brain” has been viewed over 4 million times since its release.
Dr. Mosconi has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious medical journals, including Nature Medicine, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, the Journal of the Medical Association and the British Medical Journal (Online); several book chapters in scientific books including Imaging the Aging Brain (Oxford University Press), Brain Imaging: Translational tools for CNS drug discovery, development and treatment (Elsevier) and the New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Elsevier).
Dr. Mosconi’s work has been presented at many international conferences leading to press releases involving TV and radio networks world-wide (CNN, CBS, NBC, the Today Show, the Doctors show, etc.), and major print media including Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ELLE International, and several international outlets.