Higher education doesn’t prevent Alzheimer’s but it can offer a cognitive head start

Scientists have long debated why there seems to be an association between higher levels of education and lower rates of Alzheimer's disease in later life. New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine is suggesting neurodegenerative disease is just as prevalent in more-educated individuals but a greater cognitive reserve can temporarily mitigate the impact of Alzheimer's pathology in one's senior years.

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Dementia
• Education

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