News & Announcements: July 2008

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Menopause and the brain

Kim McGuire, St. Louis Post Dispatch
If hot flashes weren't bad enough, now women going through menopause have more to worry about, according to new research from the University of Missouri in Columbia. In a recently published paper, MU scientists wrote that they have discovered significant changes in the brain's vascular system when the ovaries stop producing estrogen. Those changes include a significant loss of small vessels or "microvessels."