Menopause brain: the inability to think clearly is not ‘all in your mind’

Menopause brain: the inability to think clearly is not ‘all in your mind’

Some women worry they have the early signs of dementia. For many it’s a relief to discover the fog is hormone-related

If you are a woman in your 40s or 50s, you may at times have found yourself standing in a room wondering why on earth you are there, or forgotten the names of people you know well, or started a sentence and forgotten what it was that you needed to say.

A lot of women worry that these are early signs of dementia. But if these experiences coincide with changes in your hormone levels and maybe a few (or many) hot flushes, they are far more likely to be signs of menopause than the onset of dementia.

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