How menopause affects the brain | Lisa Mosconi

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Many of the symptoms of menopause -- hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, memory lapses, depression and anxiety -- start in the brain. How exactly does menopause impact cognitive health? Sharing groundbreaking findings from her research, neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi reveals how decreasing hormonal levels affect brain aging -- and shares simple lifestyle changes you can make to support lifelong brain health.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Health, I'm Elise Hube.
0:13.6	What accounts for the differences in how men and women age?
0:17.8	As neuroscientist Lisa Musconi explained, a Ted Women 2019, a lot of the answer is
0:23.7	in our hormones.
0:25.6	Your discovery could be a key to better understanding and preventing diseases that come with old age,
0:31.6	like Alzheimer's.
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0:40.4	a few minutes to respond.
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0:48.6	That survey.prx.org slash health.
0:52.2	Thanks.
0:54.5	Women are works of art on the outside as on the inside.
0:59.5	I am a neuroscientist and I focus on the inside, especially on women's brains.
1:05.6	There are many theories on how women's brains differ from men's brains and I've been looking
1:10.4	at brains for 20 years and can guarantee that there is no such thing as a gendered brain.
1:17.1	Pink and blue, Barbie and Lego, those are all inventions that have nothing to do with
1:22.2	the way our brains are built.
1:25.5	That said, women's brains differ from men's brains in some respects and I'm here to talk
1:30.9	about these differences because they actually matter for our health.
1:35.5	For example, women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder or
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