This Is What Experiencing A Hot Flash Looks Like
Hot Flashes Brain regions activated by hot flashes. If you can read the numbers, they correspond to (1) the bilateral insula, (2) the brain stem, (3) the basal ganglia, (4) the anterior cingulate cortex, and (5) the dorsal prefrontal cortex. Diwadkar et al. Is it hot in here? Ah, the joys of womanhood. When the female body decides that baby-making time is over, many women experience hot flashes--the occasional onset of skin redness, sweating, increased heart rate and in general feeling like you've just been teleported onto the sun's surface. Yet scientists don't really know what actually causes women to have hot flashes during menopause, or how the brain responds to them. A new study from Wayne State University's medical school tries to get at the latter question through in vivo brain scans of women having hot flashes. The researchers claim it's the first study to suggest that hot flashes originate in...