September 21, 2005Annals of Neurology341 citationsOpen Access
Ver artículo completoA life course approach to cognitive reserve: A model for cognitive aging and development?
Puntos clave
- The study aims to overview cognitive reserve and its implications for cognitive aging and development.
- Examined structural and functional approaches to cognitive reserve
- Presented a model that integrates lifetime inputs into cognitive reserve assessment
- Cognitive reserve buffers the impact of brain pathology, requiring more severe conditions to cause functional impairment.
- Reserve is viewed as a cumulative factor of lifetime experiences and inputs.
Resumen
The concept of reserve in neuroscience maintains that there are aspects of brain structure and function that can buffer the effects of neuropathology such that the greater the reserve, the more severe the pathology must be to cause functional impairment. This article provides a concise overview of structural and functional approaches to reserve and shows how reserve may be conceived as the sum of its lifetime input. In this context, reserve therefore provides an empirical yet general model of cognitive aging and development.