...Lucas Nogueira de Carvalho Pelegrini; Vanessa Alexandre da Silva; Marina Mantellatto Grigoli; Izabela Pereira Vatanabe; Patricia Regina Manzine; Marcia Regina Cominetti Introduction: Low educational attainment is a potential risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) development. Alpha-secretase...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Dementia care Neurocognitive disorders Education Health facilities The increased burden of dementia is one of the most complex challenges posed by population aging. There are approximately 50 million people living...

... in an educationally diverse elderly population . Int Psychogeriatr . 2014 ; 26 ( 11 ): 1897 – 904 . 28. Wolfsgruber   S , Jessen   F , Wiese   B , Stein   J , Bickel   H , Mösch   E ,   The CERAD neuropsychological assessment battery total score detects and predicts Alzheimer disease...

... psychometric performance differs between individuals with a high school versus college education (surrogate measures for medium and high cognitive reserves) given the same level of brain pathology assessed using quantitative structural MRI. Methods: We used data from the Aging Brain: Vasculature, Ischemia...

...Sanne Franzen; Esther van den Berg; Yuled Kalkisim; Lotte van de Wiel; Marleen Harkes; Rozemarijn L. van Bruchem-Visser; Frank Jan de Jong; Lize C. Jiskoot; Janne M. Papma Background: Neuropsychological tests are influenced by culture, language, level of education, and literacy, but there are few...

... adults. Methods: We assessed cognitive performance (verbal abilities and processing speed) and psychological stress in 2,812 older adults. The Participants reported information on education, occupation, leisure activities, family, and close friends. Results: Greater psychological stress was significantly...

... of cognitive reserve in a large sample of older adults. Methods: We assessed tests of working memory, immediate and delayed cued recall in 701 older adults from Amazonas, Brazil. The HDL-C level was derived from fasting blood samples. In addition, we interviewed individuals on their education, past occupation...

... ]. As expected, the MMSE was shown to be educationally biased [ 29 ], but it is still the most commonly used cognitive test in the clinical setting and in research. The MoCA has not been validated in Arabic among illiterate older individuals [ 28 ]. At the time of our study, the MoCA was being validated...

... of Aging. Cognitive status was assessed by the Mini-Mental State Examination. Education, income, wealth and occupation were measured, with low levels on each factor combined to produce an aggregate risk score. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze the combined effects of socioeconomic risks...

... on patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) are available yet. Objective: To evaluate the impact of education, occupation, and midlife leisure activities on brain reserve in bvFTD. Methods: Fifty-four bvFTD patients entered the study and underwent neuropsychological and behavioral...

...S. Rolstad; A. Nordlund; C. Eckerström; M.H. Gustavsson; H. Zetterberg; A. Wallin The concept of the cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesizes that premorbid factors such as education enable compensation for the manifestation of brain pathology. Accordingly, pathology should be more prominent...

...S. Rolstad; A. Nordlund; C. Eckerström; M.H. Gustavsson; H. Zetterberg; A. Wallin Background: The concept of the cognitive reserve (CR) posits that factors such as education enable compensation for the effect of brain pathology. Consequently, pathology should be more pronounced in individuals...

..., with special attention to the role of education in this association. Methods: Analyses were carried out on 4,693 stroke-free white European participants of the Whitehall II study. Two dietary patterns were determined using principal component analysis: a ‘whole food’ and a ‘processed food’ pattern. Cognitive...

...A. Bruandet; F. Richard; S. Bombois; C.A. Maurage; I. Masse; P. Amouyel; F. Pasquier Objective: We tested the hypothesis that a higher education level is associated with faster cognitive decline and lower survival in a cohort of 670 Alzheimer’s disease patients, followed for 3.5 years at the Lille...

...Kristina Johnell; Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft; Johan Fastbom Background/Aims: Low education has been shown to be a risk factor for dementia. However, little is known about the association between educational level and dementia drugs. Methods: We conducted a register-based study in Sweden of 645,973...

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.... The demographic influence on the performance of the HDS-R was examined using multiple linear regression analyses, and compared with that on the performance of the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) using the Chow test and t statistics. Overlapping strata were used in developing age-, education- and gender...

..., and education groups. Methods: Persons with dementia (DSM-III-R) or CIND were identified by a two-phase study design among 7,930 persons from the population-based Faenza Community Aging Study. Results: Subjects with a history of stroke had increased risk of both dementia [risk ratio (RR) = 3.7; 95% confidence...

... for Alzheimer’s Disease neuropsychological battery were included as covariates into the analysis. Results: The patients showed a significant metabolic reduction in the frontal and posterior association cortices, the basal ganglia and the pulvinar of the thalami. Glucose metabolism and education showed an inverse...

...Yi-Chu Liao; Ren-Shyan Liu; Evenly Lee Teng; Yi-Chung Lee; Pei-Ning Wang; Ker-Neng Lin; Chih-Ping Chung; Hsiu-Chih Liu This study examines the associations between education, cerebral perfusion, and cognitive test performance among 132 patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The participants had had...