Endogenous estrogens and brain activation during verbal memory encoding and recognition in the postmenopause.
Rachel A SchroederRebecca C ThurstonMinjie WuHoward J AizensteinCarol A DerbyPauline M MakiPublished in: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2024)
The function of brain areas critical to memory performance varies with estrogen levels in the postmenopause, even though those levels are low. Higher levels of estradiol may facilitate memory performance through enhanced function of temporal and frontal cortices during encoding of verbal material.