Interactions between age, sex, menopause, and brain structure at midlife: a UK Biobank study

S Than, C Moran, R Beare, AJ Vincent… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Age and female sex are risk factors for dementia, and menopause is associated
with cognitive dysfunction. Previous work largely considered the effects of sex and …

Association of earlier age at menopause with risk of incident dementia, brain structural indices and the potential mediators: a prospective community-based cohort …

H Liao, J Cheng, D Pan, Z Deng, Y Liu, J Jiang… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background To date, there is no homogeneous evidence of whether earlier age at
menopause is associated with incident dementia. In addition, the underlying mechanism …

Age, menstruation history, and the brain

A Ambikairajah, H Tabatabaei-Jafari, M Hornberger… - Menopause, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To investigate the cross-sectional association between measures of
menstruation history (including menopausal status, age of menopause, age of menarche …

Obesity and structural brain integrity in older women: the Women's Health Initiative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

I Driscoll, SA Gaussoin… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background: Midlife obesity has been linked to age-related brain atrophy and risk of
dementia, but the relationships are less clear for older individuals. These associations may …

Menopause impacts human brain structure, connectivity, energy metabolism, and amyloid-beta deposition

L Mosconi, V Berti, J Dyke, E Schelbaum, S Jett… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
All women undergo the menopause transition (MT), a neuro-endocrinological process that
impacts aging trajectories of multiple organ systems including brain. The MT occurs over …

Women's brain aging: Effects of sex‐hormone exposure, pregnancies, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

AMG de Lange, C Barth, T Kaufmann… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sex hormones such as estrogen fluctuate across the female lifespan, with high levels during
reproductive years and natural decline during the transition to menopause. Women's …

[HTML][HTML] Menopause age, reproductive span and hormone therapy duration predict the volume of medial temporal lobe brain structures in postmenopausal women

JJ Steventon, TM Lancaster, ES Baker… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Medial temporal lobe (MTL) atrophy is correlated with risk and severity of Alzheimer disease
(AD) pathology and cognitive decline. Increasing evidence suggest that oestrogens affect …

[HTML][HTML] Altered brain morphology and functional connectivity in postmenopausal women: automatic segmentation of whole-brain and thalamic subnuclei and resting …

GW Kim, K Park, YH Kim, GW Jeong - Aging (Albany NY), 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The transition to menopause is associated with various physiological changes, including
alterations in brain structure and function. However, menopause-related structural and …

Associations of sex, age, and cardiometabolic risk profiles with brain structure and cognition: a UK Biobank latent class analysis

S Than, C Moran, TA Collyer, RJ Beare, EM Lane… - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives It is unknown whether there are sex-related profiles of
cardiometabolic health that contribute differently to age-related changes in brain health …

Impact of sex and reproductive status on memory circuitry structure and function in early midlife using structural covariance analysis

J Seitz, M Kubicki, EG Jacobs… - Human brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research on age‐related memory alterations traditionally targets individuals aged≥ 65
years. However, recent studies emphasize the importance of early aging processes. We …