The effects of menopause on the brain are often temporary, according to a new study. But there’s a caution for women at risk of Alzheimer’s.
Menopause changes women’s brains—but many of the changes are temporary, and the brain eventually compensates for some of them, according to new research.
In one of the first studies to take an in-depth look at brain changes in healthy women before and after menopause, researchers from Weill Cornell and the University of Arizona found that thechanges the brain’s structure, energy consumption and connectivity. The volume of the brain’s gray matter—which consists of nerve cells—decreases, as does its white matter, which contains the fibers that connect nerve cells.
“Our study suggests that the brain has the ability to find a new normal after menopause in most women,” said Lisa Mosconi, lead author of the study and an associate professor of neurology and director of the Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. The study was published last week in the journalThere was a caution for one group of women, though.
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