Her cognitive neuroscience and women's health research program includes studies addressing the neurobiological effects of cultural practices such as female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting (FGC), the effects on memory of prophylactic oophorectomy in women carrying the BRCA1/2 gene mutations, and sex differences in sensitivity to touch. She has published on vision, Alzheimer's disease, sex differences, FGC, and women's health. She has edited and annotated a book of classical papers in hormones and behavior called Sex and the Brain (2007, MIT Press).