Dr. Sarah McKay
The Neurobiology of Menopause.
In the last 5-10 years, we've learned puberty, pregnancy and menopause are significant neurological transitions in women's lives. Why has research into women's brain health been ignored for so long? What happens to the brain during menopause? Can you explain how hot flashes start in the brain? What causes the brain fog of menopause? Does HRT (MHT) impact the risk of Alzheimer's disease? Sarah hits us with no-nonsense facts about the female brain during menopause, and why it’s not all doom and gloom.
Bio
Dr. Sarah McKay is an Australian-based neuroscientist, speaker, author and founder of Think Brain and the Neuroscience Academy suite of training programs. She grew up in New Zealand and completed Oxford University to complete an MSc and DPhil in neuroscience. After five years of postdoctoral research in spinal cord injury, she hung up her lab coat to found Think Brain, which offers a global audience online professional development programs in applied neuroscience and women’s brain health. Dr. Sarah is the author of The Women's Brain Book: The neuroscience of health, hormones and happiness, and her second book Baby Brain: The surprising neuroscience of how pregnancy and motherhood sculpt our brains and change our minds (for the better), was published by Hachette in April 2023. More importantly, she is a mum to two teenage boys, a sailor (co-captaincy shared with husband), a botanical artist and an ocean swimmer. Dr. Sarah explains the brain to helping professionals so they can coach brain owners in a way that promotes real change and inspires positive action.