We’re finally learning how perimenopause profoundly changes the brain

The first sign was that something was wrong was fatigue. Then I started to forget the place where I left my phone or keys, only to find it in the cabinet or the kitchen. The collapse point came when I went to make a cup of tea before an important interview, just to return after 45 minutes to a series of e -mail messages that are increasingly irritation asking why there was no call. You have placed home plants instead.
As a woman in the early 1940s, I was aware of this thing that is called Perminopause. But was it my arguments related to this, or just a producer, or simply to the mental load of the work of the hopes, the family and the social demands?
Interesting what is the interruption of the curriculum and what is a fair life is difficult, but the credit menopause It can bring some disturbing symptoms – not the least of which are cognitive symptoms, such as the difficulty of calling the names, the troubles of focus and keys in the refrigerator.
“We now know that up to 62 percent of all women in the post -menopause period [cognitive symptoms]”It can be so severe that it raises concerns about early dementia,” he says. Lisa MuskuniDirector of the Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
Although it has long been ignored or rejected as inevitable consequences for aging, nervous manifestations of menopause finally draw scientific attention. Brain changes are increasingly evident during this period – and some can be positive in the end. Moreover, these changes show that menopause may provide a decisive window for …