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Hormone therapy might boost memory during and after menopause

Different types of hormone therapy provided different benefits

Patches and gels helped long-term memory, while pills helped short-term memory

FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hormone therapy for menopause might be able to boost memory, a new study says.

What’s more, the specific type of hormone therapy used by a woman during and after menopause can have different effects on her memory, researchers found.

Women using estradiol patches or gels had better test scores for episodic memory — long-term remembrance of past events — compared to those who never used hormone therapy, researchers reported Aug. 27 in the journal Neurology .

But those using estradiol pills had better scores for prospective m

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