One of the most interesting research fields in women's health over the past 10 years includes our growing appreciation that estrogen plays relevant neurotrophic and neuroprotective roles during ...

Many women usually say the same thing during pregnancy: they walk into a room and forget why, misplace their keys or struggle ...

A largely overlooked space between cells in women's brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study ...

You walk into the kitchen and forget why you're there. A few hours later, you lose a word mid-sentence - not an obscure word, but a completely ordinary one. You stand there, grasping for it, suddenly ...

The amygdala is a region of the brain known to be important for responses to threats and learning about threats. Its function regulating stress hormones undergoes significant changes as the brain ...

A largely overlooked space between cells in women's brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study ...

Promising new research is changing the conversation about estrogen and dementia, but it does not yet give women a simple ...

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Studies by Woodbury (22, 23) and Timiras et al. (13, 14) have demonstrated that Cortisol administered to adult rats increases brain excitability, as measured by a decrease in electroshock seizure ...

A woman's breasts and brain are closely connected through hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Breast cancer treatments can induce sudden, menopause-like hormonal changes, affecting mental health.

‘Females — but not males — may be uniquely sensitive to loss of brain estrogen at old age’ First to demonstrate estrogen loss is associated with altered space between brain cells called the ...

There is a considerable evidence that the adrenocortical hormones affect the activity of the central nervous system. Some of these influences are more generalized and are related to the excitatory ...