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Estrogen improves short term memory and oral reading in midlife postmenopausal women

rogen positively affects phonologic (sound-based) cognitive processes known to be central to reading; and the brain imaging data indicates estrogen produces brain activations in the inferior parietal lobule, a region sensitive to phonological demands and implicated in reading."

Shaywitz and her team found that estrogen exerts positive effects on oral reading and verbal memory in midlife postmenopausal women. The new findings also suggest estrogen not only affects brain regions comprising the neural system used for word identification, but that it also influences reading performance itself.

"This should encourage a new line of investigation seeking to better understand estrogen's actions on reading and memory," Shaywitz said. "These data are also important in clarifying those areas of cognition, such as vocabulary and spatial ability not sensitive to estrogen; they indicate estrogen is not simply a panacea for a range of cognitive difficulties, but has specific effects which can be explained through its actions on phonologic processes."


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Contact: Karen N. Peart
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Yale University
23-Sep-2003


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