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SUBMITTER: Mungas D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5993638 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mungas Dan D Gavett Brandon B Fletcher Evan E Farias Sarah Tomaszewski ST DeCarli Charles C Reed Bruce B
Neurobiology of aging 20180412
Level of education is often regarded as a proxy for cognitive reserve in older adults. This implies that brain degeneration has a smaller effect on cognitive decline in those with more education, but this has not been directly tested in previous research. We examined how education, quantitative magnetic resonance imaging-based measurement of brain degeneration, and their interaction affect cognitive decline in diverse older adults spanning the spectrum from normal cognition to dementia. Gray mat ...[more]