- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone; 1 edition (April 20 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684854791
- ISBN-13: 978-0684854793
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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- #67 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Personal Health > Women's Health > Menopause
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Has this happened to you? A name that was on the tip of your tongue suddenly disappears from memory. You mean to say one word, and another pops out. You put your car keys down and have no idea where they are a minute later. You search for something and discover it's in plain sight in front of you. Your mind feels foggy. If you're approaching menopause, your brain may be reacting normally to estrogen loss, according to neuropsychologist and researcher Claire Warga in Menopause and the Mind. She immodestly names this condition WHMS: Warga's Hormonal Misconnection Syndrome. Warga gives tools for assessing, understanding, speaking about, and getting competent help for your symptoms. She presents case studies, discusses why this condition is often overlooked, explains the research on estrogen and the brain, and presents options for improving your brain power and reversing WHMS using hormone replacement therapy or nonhormonal approaches. She includes a comprehensive screening test and recommends that you take the results to your doctor. In fact, you might want to take the whole book to your doctor, because a recurring theme in this book is that medical professionals tend to miss, disregard, or misdiagnose these symptoms. --Joan Price
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The author of the much-discussed 1997 New York magazine article "Estrogen and the Brain" aims to bring public and professional attention to a decade of new research on the link between hormonal change and lapses in the cognitive faculties of women in the years leading up to and during menopause. Citing studies that relate declining estrogen levels to a range of "slips" in memory, speech, thinking, attention span and sense of time and space, Warga makes a fascinating argument for the biological, even evolutionary basis of such behaviorsAin men as well as women. An advocate of hormone replacement therapy to reverse these symptoms, Warga, a Ph.D. in neuropsychology, is highly skilled at making science accessible to the general reader. The book's emphasis, however, is on identifying and establishing a medical syndrome the author calls WHMS, for Warga's Hormonal Misconnection Syndrome, that she contends is separate from the physical symptoms associated with menopause. Readers, especially women from 35 to 60, who have experienced frustrating and sometimes frightening "senior moments" may welcome the book, but they should understand that less than a quarter of it deals with treatment and coping strategies. For those unable or unwilling to take synthetic hormones, there are helpful suggestions about estrogen "mimics," including serotonin boosters, exercise and a dietary regimen that includes moderate amounts of sugar and caffeine.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Book is a few days late and a few dollars short,
By A Customer
This review is from: Menopause and the Mind: The Complete Guide to Coping with Memory Loss, Foggy Thinking, Verbal Slips, and Other Cognitive Effects of Perimenopa (Hardcover)
Unfortunately, this book is an example of the fast-moving world of menopause "facts" as recent studies now show estrogen drugs worsened the condition of Alzheimer's patients. This book is one of many of its type that sells a lot of promising anecdote, but is little more than a badly disguised pharmaceutical advertising piece for failed drugs like HRT. Today's science, as shown in the Preliminary WHI study Warga talks about, is finding HRT far more harmful than helpful now that it is finally getting tested against a placebo. This book is for the bargain bin only as badly out of date today (6/14/2000). One year on the market and it has already been discredited by more current research. Save your money. And keep up to date on this issue with better and more current research and less drug industry hype.
4.0 out of 5 stars
a must read,
By Brainsurg (Chicago suburbs) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Menopause and the Mind: The Complete Guide to Coping with the Cognitive Effects of Perimenopause and Menopause Including: +Memory Loss + Foggy Thinking + Verbal Slips (Paperback)
This book was excellent in helping me understand what was happening to me. It did not do a very good job of covering treatment options. I read Menopause for Dummies which didn't cover my symptoms as well as this book did, but did an excellent job of covering the treatment options.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly Written,
By A Customer
This review is from: Menopause and the Mind: The Complete Guide to Coping with the Cognitive Effects of Perimenopause and Menopause Including: +Memory Loss + Foggy Thinking + Verbal Slips (Paperback)
Dr. Warga may or may not have something to say about menopause and the mind, but for the life of me, I can't decipher her writing. I am amazed that Simon and Schuster let this book see the light of day without more editing. I've never read so many long, tortured, and confusing sentences. Good writing does matter.
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