Scientists are rethinking what menopause does to the brain. Here’s what they discovered

Hormones change as we age in dramatic ways that can alter our mental and physical health – and the science around those hormones is changing too. A new study just published in the journal Neurology sheds new light on the ways that estrogen may protect the brain as it ages, and the results are promising. The research examined the health outcomes among 352 cognitively unimpaired women who underwent a brain MRI at age 70 and again five years after the first scan. Out of the group, women who h...