ArticleHormones and behavior2017
Cognitive changes across the menopause transition: A longitudinal evaluation of the impact of age and ovarian status on spatial memory.
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- Effects of exercise and transient estradiol exposure in middle-aged female rats.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Age- and sex-related differences in landmark recall following a virtual spatial navigation task.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Corticosterone disrupts spatial working memory during retention testing when highly taxed, which positively correlates with depressive-like behavior in middle-aged, ovariectomized female rats.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Gynecological surgery in adulthood imparts cognitive and brain changes in rats: A focus on hysterectomy at short-, moderate-, and long-term intervals after surgery.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
- How preclinical models of menopause can inform clinical care: A focus on midlife and reciprocal communication between clinical and preclinical science.Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research · 2023Article
- Clinicopathological Features of Breast Cancer in Relation to Exposure of Cycling Reproductive Hormones: A Multicenter Retrospective Study of 14,731 Patients Diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2022Article
- GABA System Modifications During Periods of Hormonal Flux Across the Female Lifespan.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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- Altered brain rhythms and behaviour in the accelerated ovarian failure mouse model of human menopause.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Effects of Radix Polygalae on Cognitive Decline and Depression in Estradiol Depletion Mouse Model of Menopause.Current issues in molecular biology · 2021Article
- Absolute Quantification of Phosphorylated ERβ Amino Acids in the Hippocampus of Women and in A Rat Model of Menopause.Endocrinology · 2021Article
- Oestrogen treatment modulates the impact of cognitive experience and task complexity on memory in middle-aged surgically menopausal rats.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cognitive changes that occur during mid-life and beyond are linked to both aging and the menopause transition. Studies in women suggest that the age at menopause onset can impact cognitive status later in life; yet, little is known about memory changes that occur during the transitional period to the postmenopausal state. The 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide (VCD) model simulates transitional menopause in rodents by depleting the immature ovarian follicle reserve and allowing animals to retain their follicle-deplete ovarian tissue, resulting in a profile similar to the majority of perimenopausal women. Here, Vehicle or VCD treatment was administered to ovary-intact adult and middle-aged Fischer-344 rats to assess the trajectory of cognitive change across time with normal aging and aging with transitional menopause via VCD-induced follicular depletion, as well as to evaluate whether age at the onset of follicular depletion plays a role in cognitive outcomes. Animals experiencing the onset of menopause at a younger age exhibited impaired spatial memory early in the transition to a follicle-deplete state. Additionally, at the mid- and post- follicular depletion time points, VCD-induced follicular depletion amplified an age effect on memory. Overall, these findings suggest that age at the onset of menopause is a critical parameter to consider when evaluating learning and memory across the transition to reproductive senescence. From a translational perspective, this study illustrates how age at menopause onset might impact cognition in menopausal women, and provides insight into time points to explore for the window of opportunity for hormone therapy during the menopause transition period. Hormone therapy during this critical juncture might be especially efficacious at attenuating age- and menopause- related cognitive decline, producing healthy brain aging profiles in women who retain their ovaries throughout their lifespan.
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