Cognitive Reserve: How to Get Older Successfully?

Ewa Małgorzata Szepietowska

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The concept of cognitive reserve (CR) refers to the situation when the brain pathology does not correspond to clinical symptoms, i.e. they are absent or weakened in combination with the established clinical diagnosis and/or the prediction of cognitive deficits (e.g. in the aging process). The article discusses the definition of cognitive reserve, methods of its measurement, brain mechanisms of CR, the role of CR in the process of successful aging, debatable issues and reference of the idea of CR to clinical practice.


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cognitive reserve; brain reserve; reserve components; dementia; prophylaxis

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2018.31.3.299-311
Date of publication: 2019-02-26 17:52:11
Date of submission: 2018-05-09 12:19:29


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