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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I’m screwed. Remind me, what were we talking about again?
I want to see what Harvard...Columbia....Hopkins...Mayo Clinic...Stanford have to say on the subject.
Pretty easy to figure out.
It just takes you longer to figure out that an idiot is deteriorating.
They are already at the lower point of intelligence.
Why do you think the USA still has Democrats?
Keep you chin up! One of the wonderful things about Alzheimer’s is that you’re always meeting new people.
“Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered.”
Well. I guess Joe Biden is an outlier.
Lol!
My report cards started on the high side and ended lower by the time I got through college. If I had any smarts, they slowly faded into oblivion, so maybe I won’t have to. :D
Terrible at P.E. though. I wonder how that factors in?
Uh oh. Either ALL FReepers get dementia.
Or do none of get dementia?
Hmmm…
Another garbage study brought to us by the usual suspects.
LOL - it IS tempting to tell democrats what we really think of them..
Biden was never very smart.
You can hide your own Easter eggs
Studying on FR and interacting is like an advanced degree.
Oops.
I’ve heard of a similar paradox. I have always read that high intellect people can be the easiest to hypnotize.
Why? Perhaps because most smart folks are very open minded to learning new things and considering new solutions to problems. A person who is trained to be a good student, gets into the habit of withholding judgement and at times, going with a suggestion, even if just learning by rote.
A compelling Hypnotist may be able to sell their delusion well enough to be accepted as is,
>>>>Studying on FR and interacting is like an advanced degree.<<<<
That’s very true, Scrambler.
And watching YouTube videos.
I had a stint at Barrow’s Neurological Institute where I was operated on for a spinal leak of brain fluid. Afterwards, I was fully tested for brain function by
neurologists. They told me that I should self test because the people around me would not be able to detect any mental deterioration.
That seems to match what the article is saying.
I use a Sudoku app on my iPad. The app keeps track of the average time it takes to solve the puzzles. So far, I have not detected any slowdowns.
They didn’t tell me what I should do if I did detect a problem.
I think the term clever here is being used to described doubled faced people, trying to maintain two positions simultaneously.
Just being in college is too vague.
The people studying physics are not similar to those in gender studies
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