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P3–026: The effects of cognitive reserve and apolipoprotein E on healthy cognitive function
Author(s) -
Ward David,
Summers Mathew,
Saunders Nichole,
Valenzuela Michael,
Summers Jeffery,
Ritchie Karen,
Robinson Andrew,
Vickers James
Publication year - 2013
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.2013.05.1095
Subject(s) - cognitive reserve , apolipoprotein e , cognition , dementia , neuropsychology , psychology , cognitive decline , risk factor , alzheimer's disease , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , disease , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry
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