We find that after the onset of manifestations of Alzheimer's disease patients with higher education decline faster.
More Quotes from Nikolaos Scarmeas:
They go downhill faster. We think it's because they have delayed the onset so long that a lot of the brain changes have accumulated and when they reach the point of clinical manifestation, they can't compensate any more and they sort of crash.Nikolaos Scarmeas
The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cognitive reserve, maybe a larger number of brain cells or more efficient brain systems or networks. These people with higher education have more redundancy or reserve so they can cope if part of the brain is destroyed.
Nikolaos Scarmeas
When more and more of the disease accumulates in the brain they are able to compensate for a long time, but at some point they cannot cope with it anymore and they manifest the disease.
Nikolaos Scarmeas
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