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Brain Fog, Memory Loss, and Alzheimer’s Risk During Menopause with Dr. Lisa Mosconi

3/24/20261 hr 1 min

In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver continues her conversation with Dr. Lisa Mosconi, neuroscientist and associate professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Mosconi directs the Alzheimer's Prevention Program, including the NIH-funded Women's Brain Initiative and the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic, and was recently named director of the $50 million Program in Women's Health, Cutting Alzheimer's Risk Through Endocrinology. She is also the author of the bestselling book The Menopause Brain.

Dr. Mosconi and Dr. Haver go deeper into why brain fog, memory lapses, and cognitive changes...

Clips

We Found The Opposite
$50M To Tackle Alzheimer’s
Halving Women’s Alzheimer’s Risk
Alzheimer’s Starts In Midlife
Why Women’s Risk Spikes
A 30% Metabolic Drop
When Estrogen Falls, Brain Adapts
Clarifying ‘Brain Eats Itself’
Menopause Unmasks Vulnerabilities
Endogenous vs. Therapy Estrogen

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Lisa Mosconi· Guest0:00

    So sadly, almost two-thirds of all Alzheimer's patients are women.

  2. Mary Claire Haver· Host0:05

    Mm-hmm.

  3. Lisa Mosconi· Guest0:05

    And for a really, really long time, the notion was that women live longer than men, and Alzheimer's is a disease of old age. Therefore, at the end of today, more women than men end up with Alzheimer's. That was actually the pushback that I... the first one [laughs] on my list of pushbacks that I got when I was a PhD student because I wanted to look at sex differences in Alzheimer's, and people were telling me, "It's a waste of your time because it's just aging. It's just longevity. It's just that women live longer than men."

  4. Mary Claire Haver· Host0:36

    [upbeat music] The views and opinions expressed on Unpaused are those of the talent and guests alone and are provided for informational and entertainment purposes only. No part of this podcast or any related materials are intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. In our last episode of Unpaused, Dr. Lisa Mosconi helped us name something women have felt for decades but were rarely believed. Menopause doesn't just change your body, it changes your brain. And Dr. Mosconi didn't bring opinions. She brought scans. She brought data. She brought a scientific explanation for that moment so many women describe with one sentence: "I just

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