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What Can Help Cognitive Reserve?

What You’ve Done:

Research has shown several positive factors for a higher cognitive reserve based on life experiences:

High Education Level
High Job Attainment (Jobs with responsibility)
Socioeconomic factors
Lifelong engagement in cognitively stimulating activities
Bilingualism
Leisure activities that use intellect, attention, memory

What You’re Doing:

At this time, the best predictor of cognitive reserve is what you have done in the past. Research is very interested in what can be done to improve cognitive reserve when aging changes occur.

Exact “recipe” to improve cognitive reserve is unknown
Research has been unable to show computerized training programs transfer to improvement in everyday tasks
Aerobic exercise is currently the most supported activity by research
We do know that “more complex neural networks” in the brain help compensate.

What else would you like to know?

References: Mondini, S., et al. (2016). Cognitive reserve in dementia: implications for cognitive training. Front. Ageing Neursoscience, 8 (84).
Pietzuch M, King AE, Ward DD, & Vickers, JC (2019). The influence of genetic factors and cognitive reserve on structural and functional resting-state brain networks in aging and alzheimer’s disease. Front. Aging Neuroscience, 11 (30).
Stern, Y. (2013). Cognitive reserve in ageing and alzheimer’s disease. Lancet Neurol., 11(11), 1006-1012.

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