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Women have better memory than men but face greater dementia risk
Thursday, November 10, 2016 IST
Women have better memory than men but face greater dementia risk


Though women have higher reminiscence than men, they're at a extra risk of suffering from reminiscence loss and dementia as they age, reveals a brand new observe.
The memory of women has a tendency to vanish as the oestrogen — lady sex hormones — degrees decline or as women input the submit-menopause section. Reminiscence loss is a nicely-documented result of the growing older method.

In a take a look at posted on line in the journal Menopause, the findings showed that as women enter the menopause transition duration, they broaden multiplied forgetfulness and “mind fog”.

It also stated that women are also disproportionately at risk for memory impairment and dementia while in comparison with men.
further, declines in oestrogen degrees in postmenopausal girls were discovered to be specially associated with lower quotes of initial getting to know and retrieval of formerly recalled facts, at the same time as reminiscence storage and consolidation have been maintained.
in spite of these situations working in opposition to them, center-elderly women nevertheless outscore their further elderly male counterparts on all reminiscence measures, the researchers said.

“Brain fog and court cases of reminiscence issues ought to be taken severely, as these complaints are related to reminiscence deficits,” Stated Jonn Pinkerton, govt Director at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) — a US based totally non-profit company.


For the have a look at, the team blanketed 212 women and men aged forty five to 55 years and assessed their episodic reminiscence, executive feature, semantic processing, and predicted verbal intelligence thru cognitive testing.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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