Professor Barbara Sahakian

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Global News Podcast · EU and India announce 'mother of all trade deals' · 27 Jan 2026 podcast

Digging or a lot of exercise and walking.

What we found was that the menopause is associated with decreased brain gray matter volumes and these important areas for learning and memory, such as the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus.

And those are two of the first areas to be affected by the changes that we see in Alzheimer's disease.

So it does seem that the menopause might make the female brain more vulnerable.

So this may be part of the explanation for that.

Symptoms very commonly reported are increases in anxiety and depression and problems with sleep.

So where you have difficulty with your emotions and maybe get more anxious and depressed.

probably relates to those changes there.

But there are things that you can do to improve that transition through the menopause by having a healthy lifestyle.

So making sure that you get exercise, that you have good social support, that you

activate your brain by new learning because Eleanor McGuire has shown in one of her studies that you can actually increase the volume of the hippocampus, that brain area, if you learn and remember the location of places in space.

And we all know that women during the menopause, many of them are dealing with teenage children or they may be still at work.

And so the amount of stress that they have to cope with during that time can be

Quite a lot.

So if you're struggling and having problems, to make sure that you have good social support so you can discuss the issues and not sort of suffer on your own.

You talk about the design decisions that these social media companies have taken.

Can you be a bit more specific?

What are you looking at here?

The social media companies themselves have said that the evidence you're putting forward falls short of proving that they are responsible for alleged harms.

So that is how they will argue against this.

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