| Literature DB >> 24018144 |
Daniel Barulli1, Yaakov Stern.
Abstract
Cognitive reserve (CR) is a concept meant to account for the frequent discrepancy between an individual's measured level of brain pathology and her expected cognitive performance. It is particularly important within the context of aging and dementia, but has wider applicability to all forms of brain damage. As such, it has intimate links to related compensatory and neuroprotective concepts, as well as to the related notion of brain reserve. In this article, we introduce the concept of cognitive reserve and explicate its potential cognitive and neural implementation. We conclude that cognitive reserve is compatible and complementary with many related concepts, but that each much draw sharper conceptual boundaries in order to truly explain preserved cognitive function in the face of aging or brain damage.Entities:
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease; aging; cognitive reserve; epidemiology; imaging
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24018144 PMCID: PMC3840716 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.08.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN: 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229