Midlife brain health beyond brain fog
Cognitive change can feel especially frightening when women have never been taught how hormones and brain health intersect. Mosconi explains differences in female risk across Alzheimer’s disease, stress, sleep, metabolism, and the menopause transition, translating imaging research into an accessible long-term perspective. Brain fog is placed within that wider picture without being automatically equated with dementia. In later adulthood, the book connects immediate concerns—memory lapses, concentration, emotional shifts—with preventive questions about movement, food, cardiovascular health, and medical care. It turns fear into informed attention while making clear that women’s brains deserve research designed around women.
About Lisa Mosconi
Lisa Mosconi traces her research urgency to a striking family pattern: her grandmother and two great-aunts developed Alzheimer’s, while their brother did not. That history turned the difference between women’s and men’s brain aging into a deeply personal scientific question.
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