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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: 2) by ls671 on Friday April 25 2014, @06:40AM
It makes sense but I would formulate it as "people who are used to learn stuff and re-arrange their brain to develop new capabilities".
That phenomenon has been observed before, as you learn/develop new capabilities, new links grow in your brain similar to the roots of a plant. Einstein brain was sliced and was different than most others but we ain't sure if he was born like that or if its brain got modified because of the way he was thinking although I would vouch for the latter. Also, he got kicked out of university and he never liked conventional school much.
People who are used to "grow new roots" (or links) in their brain should then be able to grow some easier to recuperate from a brain injury.
But, this has got nothing to do with conventional education (i.e. school system) although people with an ability to do that might succeed better in the conventional educational system.
I think somebody intelligent which has been living and surviving in a desert island for 20 years since he/she was, say 10 years old could show the same abilities.
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