Menopause does NOT shrink your brain

Sarah McKay
This week, I was once again caught up in a news storm over the latest misleading headlines following work was published in Psychological Medicine. While some headlines were claiming “menopause shrinks women’s brains”, I was asked if the research was junk science (neither is the case). As always with TV news appearances, my thoughts were cut to a super short soundbite, which I expand on in this Instagram reel. The research is critiqued in more detail with Prof. Pauline Maki on Fiona Clarke’s...