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A new way of thinking about menopausal brain fog

A new way of thinking about brain fog.

It’s easy to talk about midlife or menopausal brain fog as if there must be one clear cause ...
Dr Sarah McKay keynote speaker on women's brain health

Women were in the neuroscience lab. Just not in the data

This week, I spoke at an International Women’s Day event about women’s brain health. I began by pointing ...

Adding matrescence to the dictionary.

If you follow me on social media, you'll see I've been proudly part of a new global campaign ...

Menopause does NOT shrink your brain

This week, I was once again caught up in a news storm over the latest misleading headlines following ...

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This year, I’ve shared 43 editions of my neuroscience and women's brain health micro-briefings with you all. These ...

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