EEG Revealed That Fragrances Positively Affect Menopausal Symptoms in Mid-life Women.

ABSTRACT: During mid-life, women experienced not only physical but also neurological transition. Because of this, many women suffer from physiological and/or psychological menopausal symptoms. Although hormone therapy (HT) was broadly used to alleviate menopausal symptoms, HT showed inconsistent effects in case of psychological symptoms. Moreover, mid-life women's brains have distinct characteristics than in other periods of life, it is needed to study psychological symptoms in shifted brain network of mid-life women. As an alternative, inhalation of fragrances may alleviate psychological menopausal symptoms. To characterize the alleviation mechanism by fragrances, we tested the effect of fragrances on menopausal symptoms using electroencephalographic (EEG) methods. We hypothesized that fragrance co

SUBMITTER: Moon SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7649086 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature