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Menopause Reshapes the Brain, and Medicine Is Only Beginning to Reckon With It

A major study links menopause to grey matter loss in memory and mood regions, raising urgent questions about brain health that medicine has long deferred.

Cascade Daily Editorial · Mar 20 · 6,739 views
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