High blood pressure may be bigger dementia risk for women
Even after accounting for other risk factors, a new study found that hypertension was associated with a higher risk of dementia in women than in men....
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Women better at remembering words and faces
Research of more than 1.2 million people found that women may have a slightly better episodic memory. These are the types of memories related to personally experienced events. Part of this appears to be become women are often better...
read moreWomen’s brains appear three years younger than men’s
Washington University School of Medicine researchers studying brain metabolism found that women’s brain appear to be three years younger than men’s brains. This might be why women typically maintain their cognitive skills longer than men....
read moreLate menopause may help protect memory
Research from the University of London found that the age at which a woman starts menopause influences her memory performance later in life....
read moreHigh fitness may slash dementia risk for women
A study published in Neurology has found that women who are very physically fit may also have a greatly decreased risk of dementia....
read morePulling an all-nighter hurts women’s working memory
According to a new study, sleep deprivation seems to affect the working memory of women much more than men....
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