Cognitive reserve: The warehouse within

The forward reserve warehouse sizing and dimensioning problem

Cognitive reserve in aging.

Cognitive reserve explains why those with higher IQ, education, occupational attainment, or participation in leisure activities evidence less severe clinical or cognitive changes in the presence of age-related or Alzheimer's disease pathology. Specifically, the cognitive reserve hypothesis is that individual differences in how tasks are processed provide reserve against brain pathology. Cogniti...

Brain and cognitive reserve.

The concept of reserve is well-recognized in medicine. Various organs of the body, for example the kidney and the liver, manifest reserve such that significant damage can occur to the organ without impacting on clinical function. The very fact that an individual can donate one kidney and yet remain healthy attests to this fact. The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is generally considered to be ...

Cognitive reserve and lifestyle.

The concept of cognitive reserve (CR) suggests that innate intelligence or aspects of life experience like educational or occupational attainments may supply reserve, in the form of a set of skills or repertoires that allows some people to cope with progressing Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology better than others. There is epidemiological evidence that lifestyle characterized by engagement in ...

Estimating Cognitive Reserve in Healthy Adults Using the Cognitive Reserve Scale

The concept of cognitive reserve emerged from observed disparities between brain pathology and clinical symptoms. It may explain better neuropsychological performance in healthy individuals. The objectives of this study were to measure reserve in healthy subjects using a new Cognitive Reserve Scale (CRS), analyze the internal consistency of the CRS, and analyze validity evidence. A total of 117...