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Menopause and the Mind.(Review)
Menopause and the Mind Claire Warga, Ph.D. Simon & Schuster, Inc. (388ppg.) $24 New York, N.Y. 1999
At last someone has pulled together information from women about their cognitive and memory changes during perimenopause and menopause. The author is another midlife woman who brings her unique experience to another overlooked menopause disturbance, which may be as prevalent as hot flashes and vaginal dryness.
As a research psychologist and medical journalist, Claire Warga, Ph.D., has researched brain/body/mind/physiology frontiers relating to pregnancy, Alzheimer's disease, sleep, and the psychophysiology of emotions. As she says, "I have been virtually `tap dancing' around topic areas ... in virtually a connect-the-dot fashion that leads to the present picture."
And what a picture it is! At once comforting to those of us struggling with some of these impairments, but more for our beleaguered doctors to learn about those pesky women.
Dr. Warga has viewed the "impairments" from many angles. The strength of the book is its "defining" nature. She has pulled from the literature and from interviews with women, researchers, and physicians the many and varied mind/speech/attention/behavioral symptoms she refers to as Warga's Hormonal Misconnection Syndrome (WHMS). Her syndrome is certainly not yet a household word, but hopefully it will become one that women won't forget! (I like her chutzpah in naming it after herself. See the confidence midlife can bring!)
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