7/28/2010 PERMALINK
Having a good education lower your dementia risk. Professor Carol Brayne and Dr Hannah Keage of the University of Cambridge explained there new research in this way. 'Previous research has shown that there is not a one-to-one relationship between being diagnosed with dementia during life and changes seen in the brain at death,' said Dr Keage. 'One person may show lots of pathology in their brain while another shows very little, yet both may have had dementia. Our study shows education in early life appears to enable some people to cope with a lot of changes in their brain before showing dementia symptoms.' The researchers analyzed a large body of data from the EClipSE collaboration, which combines the three European population-based longitudinal studies of ageing (the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, the Cambridge City Over-75s Cohort Study and Vantaa 85, a Finnish study).