Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast
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The Role of Education in Cognitive Reserve
There is this theory that education and using your brain, whether it's your occupation or your leisure activities, that somehow using your brain gives you sort of a buffer. What the mechanism might be, we don't really understand. It also could be reverse causality, right? So you're born with a bigger brain,. so to speak, or more efficient brain, you know, you go farther in school. And maybe that's the buffer too. Or maybe it's later in life that it's the buffer. We don't really know for sure.
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