Adrienne M. Tucker|Y. Stern
Cognitive Reserve in Aging
Columbia University
cognitive reserve explains higher iq education occupational attainment participation leisure activities evidence less severe clinical cognitive changes presence agerelated alzheimers disease pathology specifically cognitive reserve hypothesis individual differences tasks processed provide reserve brain pathology cognitive reserve may allow flexible strategy usage ability thought captured executive functions tasks additionally cognitive reserve allows individuals greater neural efficiency greater neural capacity ability compensation via recruitment additional brain regions taking cognitive reserve account may allow earlier detection better characterization agerelated cognitive changes alzheimers disease importantly cognitive reserve fixed continues evolve across lifespan thus even latestage interventions hold promise boost cognitive reserve thus reduce prevalence alzheimers disease agerelated problems keywords aging alzheimers disease brain reserve cognitive reserve neural reserve neural compensation traumatic brain injury wrat fmri data