In 1988, the Annals of Neurology published a study wherein 137 elderly people, who had an average age of 85.5 years, had their mental status, memory, and cognitive function evaluated and then examined postmortem. Seventy-eight percent of them exhibited some form of dementia, while 55 percent showed manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease.

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posted Oct 19, 2016, 5:38 PM by Curtis Cripe
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In 1988, the Annals of Neurology
published a study wherein 137 elderly
people, who had an average age of
85.5 years, had their mental status,
memory, and cognitive function
evaluated and then examined
postmortem. Seventy-eight percent of
them exhibited some form of
dementia, while 55 percent showed
manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease.
They were surprised to nd that those
whose brain had extensive Alzheimer’s
disease pathology showed little to no
symptoms of the illness when they
were still alive. More ndings showed
that these individuals had higher brain
weights and more neuron count than
control subjects of the same age and
also in a nursing home.
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This was the rst time in medical
literature that the concept of the
cognitive reserve was mentioned and
discussed.
Currently, cognitive reserve is
scienti cally de ned as the brain’s
capability of carrying out cognitive
functions even with a certain amount
of damage to and aging caused
degeneration of the brain.
There have been empirical evidence of
cognitive reserve helping people not
just cope with the advancing
deterioration of their cognitive
function, but also be protected from
the occurrence of any
neurodegeneration in the rst place.
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Other than brain size and a number of
neurons, there are also correlations
between increased one’s cognitive
reserve and his education, occupation,
and lifestyle.
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