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The medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology has published an article that found that people with more years of education may be better able to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Those with an education equal to a college degree were more than seven times more likely to fully recover from their injury than people who did not finish high school.
The cognitive reserve theory is that people with more education have a greater cognitive reserve, or the brain's ability to maintain function in spite of damage. The concept has emerged for brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, where people with higher levels of education have been shown to have fewer symptoms of the disease than people with less education, even when they have the same amount of damage in the brain from the disease.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday April 25 2014, @06:26AM
It would seem that more intelligent people, on average, tend to obtain more education over their lifetime. Intelligence is, after all, the ability to learn, not the amount rote material stored in the brain.
If someone who is barely able to function in society is cognitively impaired by 50% they often become invalids. Someone with greater intelligence, suffering the same impairment, probably still has enough in reserve to manage their own affairs in spite of the damage of Alzheimers.
I'm not sure the amount of education has anything to do with it.
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