Testosterone therapy 'improves memory'

Testosterone therapy improves memory in post-menopausal women and could potentially be used to fight dementia, according to new findings.

Research to be presented at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston revealed that post-menopausal women treated with a testosterone spray for six months showed improved memory.

Two groups of older women were given computerised tests to measure cognitive function, and one group then received testosterone spray on their skin which returned levels of the hormone in their blood to that of women of child-bearing age.

After 26 weeks of this treatment, the group who underwent no treatment showed no significant differences in cognition, whereas those who received the testosterone spray exhibited improvements in verbal learning and memory.

Lead investigator Sonia Davison commented: "This is exciting in that the testosterone-treated women were all healthy, with no cognitive impairment, and there was a definite treatment effect of the testosterone spray,"

"Testosterone may play a protective role against dementia."

This comes after Nancy Morse, senior scientific officer at Efamol, specialists in essential fatty acids, said that people can boost their brain function by consuming fish oil components.

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