Our bodies experience many physical and mental changes during menopause, and our brain is just one of the organs affected. Last week, headlines flew up about new research that revealed some of the changes in women's brains in menopause are similar to those in people with dementia.
A team from Cambridge University looked at the impact of menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on women’s mental health, cognitive function, and brain structure. In the study, published in Psychological Medicine, they used data from almost 125,000 women in the UK Biobank to examine whether menopause is associated with grey matter loss.
