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- More synapses may boost cognitive reserve, which may help prevent dementia. Another reason could be that people with more education tend to have healthier lifestyles than those with less education.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/does-higher-learning-combat-dementiaDoes Higher Learning Combat Dementia? - Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Why Education May Help Prevent Dementia. Education could play an important role in improving cognitive reserve, which is the brain’s ability to cope with damage that would otherwise lead to dementia, according to Oh.
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Researchers have proposed a number of mechanisms to explain the relationship between education and risk for dementia including: brain reserve, cognitive reserve, “use it or lose it”, the brain-battering hypothesis, ascertainment/diagnostic bias, and education as a proxy for a third variable (s).
Jul 23, 2010 · Examining the brains of 872 people who had been part of three large ageing studies, and who before their deaths had completed questionnaires about their education, the researchers found that more education makes people better able to cope with changes in the brain associated with dementia.
Higher childhood education levels and lifelong higher educational attainment reduce dementia risk. 2,35–37 New work suggests overall cognitive ability increases, with education, before reaching a plateau in late adolescence, when brain reaches greatest plasticity; with relatively few further gains with education after age 20 years. 38 This ...
- Gill Livingston, Gill Livingston, Jonathan Huntley, Andrew Sommerlad, Andrew Sommerlad, David Ames, ...
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Evidence has shown that formal education, like high school and college, may reduce a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s. Research published in 2020 by The Lancet Commission that examined dementia interventions found 7% of worldwide dementia cases could be prevented by increasing early-life education.
Ensuring an informed and effective dementia workforce is of international concern; however, there remains limited understanding of how this can be achieved. This review aimed to identify features of effective dementia educational programs.
Key question 1a: In adults 45 years of age or older with normal cognition or merely subjective cognitive impairment, does continuing education lead to a reduction in the risk of MCI or Alzheimer’s-type dementia compared with no continuing education?
