Experts break down how perimenopause and menopause affect the brain and how to support it through these changes.

This article was reviewed by Darragh O’Carroll, MD. Hormonal Brain Fog: What It Is and What to Do About It Key Takeaways: ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images; aldigraph/Solvers via Canva) Tamsen Fadal was working as a news anchor ...

Elizabeth, from Taunton, said: “I thought it was the menopause. I was stuttering, struggling to find words and couldn’t type ...

Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images) Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. But the transition affects far more than reproductive health: it ...

Have you ever stared blankly at a screen, forgotten simple tasks, or struggled to articulate your thoughts during a meeting? These moments of mental lapse might seem harmless at first, but when they ...

A new review presented at The Menopause Society’s annual meeting breaks down the changes that happen in the brain during menopause. These adaptations could be behind the brain fog that some women ...

Although brain fog isn’t a clinical term, it is often used to describe a set of cognitive symptoms where your mind feels cloudy, and you have difficulty thinking clearing or articulating your thoughts ...

Do you ever get a feeling of sluggishness, lack of focus, or mental fogginess after eating? That fuzzy feeling in the head is what we call brain fog, and though it isn't an illness by itself, it can ...

Many people who have summer brain fog try to fight it with caffeine and other means that backfire, but here are tips on how to cope with it. As summer heats up, the physical consequences of heat ...

While the COVID pandemic has thankfully been over for some time now, there is still a considerable number of people in the world (about 400 million) suffering from long COVID. Long COVID is a chronic ...