title: Cognitive performance in surgically menopausal women on estrogen.
abstract: Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) may help maintain normal cognitive function. Nondemented surgically menopausal women on ERT (n = 10) enrolled in a longitudinal aging study performed better than age- and education-matched control subjects (n = 25) on selected tests of verbal memory and constructional ability. These results suggest that ERT initiated soon after surgical menopause can have long-term neuroprotective effects in cognitively intact women.
authors.affiliation: Einstein Aging Study , Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. joev3@idt.net
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Verghese
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kuslansky
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sliwinski
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Crystal
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Buschke
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Lipton
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition / Q000187:drug effects*; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008594:Menopause, Premature / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests