A double edged sword
08 Nov 2011 Yasmin Noone, Australian Ageing Agenda
Professor Yaakov Stern has been in Australia speaking at the Optimising Healthy Brain Ageing Symposium, explaining the concept of Cognitive Reserve and explaining that dementia prevention strategies can help protect the brain reserve, but that the extent to which it will delay the onset of Alzheimer's will vary from person-to-person.
An article by Yasmin Noone, reports in more detail the insights provided by Professor Stern.
Link to the full article
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