Thursday, January 23, 2020

Hot flashes impair memory performance

If you're having difficulty identifying the right word to express yourself clearly or remembering a story correctly, you may blame menopause. A new study suggests that physiologic hot flashes are associated with decreased verbal memory and with alterations in brain function during encoding and retrieval of memory, especially in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

from Health & Medicine News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200123095859.htm

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