Hormone therapy that improves postmenopausal memory

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Hormone therapy compounds differ significantly when it comes to their effects on cognition in postmenopausal women, especially on verbal memory, new research suggests.

In a cohort study of almost 70 healthy women between the ages of 49 and 68 years who were at risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), those receiving hormone therapy containing 17*β*-estradiol showed a significant improvement in verbal memory performance compared with those receiving compounds with conjugated equine estrogen (CEE).

“There is a differential effect of the type of hormone therapy on brain function,” principal investigator Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and director of the Stanford Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health, told *Medscape Medical News*.

Ref and Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749913?sssdmh=dm1.719673&src=nldne

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