Greater Education Does Not Reduce the Rate of Brain Aging

BrainPost, 11 May 2021

Educational attainment has been linked with numerous advantages across an individual’s lifespan. One proposed advantage of education relates to brain aging, where education either acts as a protector, or contributes to our cognitive reserve (how resilient our brain is). However, cross-sectional studies investigating the association between education and brain aging (where participants are only examined at one point in time) are inconclusive. In addition, data from longitudinal studies (where participants are examined at multiple time points, often months or years apart) on this association are sparse. Read more.