Posted on 01/25/2025 8:15:26 PM PST by bimboeruption
Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered.
People who spend more years at school or in education are likely to deteriorate from the neurodegenerative disease faster, according to the biggest study of its kind.
Scientists have dubbed the phenomenon the “cognitive reserve paradigm”. Authors from the Erasmus University Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, said: “This paradigm postulates that people with higher education are more resilient to brain injury before functional declines.
“Once this reserve has been used up and dementia is diagnosed, however, these people are already at a more advanced stage of the underlying disease and clinical progression will be faster.”
Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK and there are various types with differing symptoms, impact and rates of decline.
The condition is caused by certain proteins clumping together in the brain, including amyloid and tau, which new drugs are trying to stop from occurring.
A person’s cognitive reserve is their brain’s ability to cope and keep working, including in the face of diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
It can be bolstered through learning and mental stimulation such as education and doing brain puzzles.
But the research found that, paradoxically, these patients go downhill faster if they do get a diagnosis.
Research published in the BMJ, which analysed 261 studies including 36 relating to educational attainment, found life expectancy after a dementia diagnosis decreased for every extra year of education a person had received.
The average survival time was 10.5 years, but the scientists calculated that for every extra year of study a person had undertaken, they lived for 0.2 years less – equivalent to about two and a half months.
It would mean someone who had finished an undergraduate degree aged 21 would live for a year less than...
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LOL
Hope I’m too dumb to get it.
“ They didn’t tell me what I should do if I did detect a problem.”
Set your soduku to an easier level. 🙂
That reminds me of this
Henny Youngman Quote:
When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
So, probably superior people who have grain power should beware?
Grain power?
Like oats?
:D
Probably more like corn, wheat or rye. Fermented. 😁
No, we just recognize it sooner.
I have experienced significant cognitive decline since the onset of COVID-related novel seizures. It takes me about 24 hours to recover when one hits. Never had them before being exposed.
Information that used to be readily available at my fingertips I now struggle to recall. Ironically, the field where my company regards me as a subject-matter expert is still in there, and I can recall specific sections of state code, chapter and verse, even hours after a seizure. Just don’t ask me who the new client is that I talked to; I will need to check my notes.
It’s frightening for someone who built a career on their brainpower to watch it slowly fading away. I used to be able to crank out pages to detailed reports and write articles with no effort.
My latest report took me three solid days to compile and I was only going over 167 pages of data to summarize. The attorney still gave it a big thumbs up and stated he could win for my client based on what I presented, but it was a painful slog.
Thanks, Fauci, may you rot in hell.
Your post sounds extremely cogent and articulate. You are probably being very hard on yourself. I find it interesting that they equate ‘education’ with cleverness/intelligence. There is no true correlation. Some of the most intelligent people I have ever known are only high school graduates.
Is the broken image link icon the actual reply or was it supposed to link to something?
I feel my brain cells powering down as I type, lol
I graduated with a 4 year degree at 20 so that means one less year in college so does that give me an extra year? They didn’t mention Masters work but ass-u-me that’d take it back. Seems the solution could be never getting diagnosed.
I don’t know
It’s working on my end
Sometimes right-click to reload 🔃 works
Me too. I’m not as clever as I think I am, or it was, wait what were we talking about.
Me am stoopid. Me live long time with hot stipud wife. Make stoupid kids. Have gud dog two. Screw you brain man.
Doesn’t explain Dr. Thomas Sowell. Nor Resident Go Brandon.
LMAO that is funny!
Perhaps because most smart folks are very open minded
Don’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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