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P1‐118: The Tasmanian Healthy Brain Study (THBS): Does late‐life education prevent age‐related cognitive decline and dementia?
Author(s) -
Summers Mathew,
Valenzuela Michael,
Summers Jeffery,
Ritchie Karen,
Dickson Tracey,
Robinson Andrew,
Vickers James
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2012.05.395
Subject(s) - dementia , neuropsychology , cognition , working memory , cognitive decline , executive functions , psychology , anxiety , gerontology , cohort , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , cohort study , cognitive skill , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , pathology
Alzheimer's disease research has identified environmental factors that delay the onset of dementia symptoms in the presence of disease processes. The beneficial effects of education, occupational status, and cognitively stimulating lifestyle activities are described through the theory of cognitive reserve, which are the individual differences in the efficient use and differential recruitment of brain networks due to life experience. Normally applied to pathological ageing, cognitive reserve has also been used to predict cognitive function in the face of normal age-related cognitive ageing, with mixed results