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How Brainpower Can Help You Cheat Old Age, New Scientist
 









Excerpts: Some psychologists and neuroscientists have started to call this
mental padding "cognitive reserve". The higher your reserve, they argue, the
more damage you can sustain without showing signs of mental decline. But the
idea of cognitive reserve is controversial. Some dismiss it as nothing more than
common sense - people who start off smarter have further to fall. Nevertheless,
a growing number of studies are bolstering the idea that cognitive reserve is
real.(...) people with high literacy and IQ cope better with the progress of
Alzheimer's disease.
Source: How Brainpower Can Help You Cheat Old Age[
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg18825301.300.html ], Lisa Melton,
New Scientist, 05/12/17

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