Companion Podcast

References

1. Risk of mild cognitive impairment increases with less education
2. Effects of Alzheimer's disease may be influenced by education (Religious Orders Study)
3. Study links adolescent IQ/activity levels with risk of dementia(Analysis of high school records and yearbooks)
4. More support for role of mental stimulation in protecting against Alzheimer's (careers)
5. Use your brain, halve your risk of dementia (comprehensive review)
6. Fast language learners have more white matter in auditory region
7. Higher education or larger brain size may protect against dementia (Nun Study)
8. How higher education protects older adults from cognitive decline
9. Compensating strategies for aging memories
10. Hultsch, D.F., Hertzog, C., Dixon, R.A. & Small, B.J. 1998. Memory change in the aged. Cambridge University Press. (Victoria Longitudinal Study)
11. Yan, L.L. et al. 2006. Education, 15-year risk factor progression, and coronary artery calcium in young adulthood and early middle age: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study. JAMA, 295 (April 19), 1793-800.
12. Social networks protect against Alzheimer's
13. Age-related vision problems may be associated with cognitive impairment
14. Hearing loss in older adults may compromise cognitive resources for memory
15. Depressed older adults more likely to become cognitively impaired
16. Treatable depression often accompanies mild memory loss
17. Depression associated with changes in the brain in Alzheimer's
18. Study points to depression as a risk for developing Alzheimer's disease