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Hormone Replacement Therapy
Estrogen reduces age-related increase in variability seen in cognition studies
December 30th, 2004
Estrogen reduces the age-related increases in variability seen in cognitive aging studies, according to Columbia University neuroscientists. "Traditionally, studies of cognitive aging have focused on comparing the average performance of younger and older adults, whereas variability around the mean has been attributed to task-irrelevant noise. The present study examined the hypothesis that variability in memory performance increases with age and that estrogen helps temper age-related increases in variability," wrote D.J. Wegesin and colleagues in a recent paper published in Neuropsychology. "Postmenopausal estrogen users, estrogen and progestin...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-30)
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