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17. How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Do People Who Retire Early Have Faster Cognitive Decline?

Cognitive reserve refers to a theory created by yakov stern, a nero psychologist at columbia university. He believes that we develop a kind of storehouse of thinking abilities depending o the tasks we give ourselves throughout our lives. The more cognitive reserve a person has, the better they can cope with changes to the brain that happen later in life.

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