Estrogen Replacement Therapy In Older Women: A Neuropsychological And Brain MRI Study
@article{Schmidt1996EstrogenRT, title={Estrogen Replacement Therapy In Older Women: A Neuropsychological And Brain MRI Study}, author={Reinhold Schmidt and Franz Fazekas and B. Reinhart and Peter Kapeller and Gudrun Fazekas and Hans Offenbacher and Bernd Eber and Martin Schumacher and Wolfgang Freidl}, journal={Journal of the American Geriatrics Society}, year={1996}, volume={44} }
OBJECTIVE: To determine if postmenopausal women receiving estrogen perform better on demanding cognitive tests than women without estrogen replacement and if this beneficial effect on cognition is caused by estrogen‐related prevention of silent ischemic brain damage.
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