Efficiency, capacity, compensation, maintenance, plasticity: emerging concepts in cognitive reserve

By Daniel Barulli, Yaakov Stern. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2013

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Cognitive reserve (CR) is a concept meant to account for the frequent discrepancy between an individual’s measured level of brain pathology and her expected cognitive performance. It is particularly important within the context of aging and dementia, but has wider applicability to all forms of brain damage. As such, it has intimate links to related compensatory and neuroprotective concepts, as well as to the related notion of brain reserve. In this article, we introduce the concept of cognitive reserve and explicate its potential cognitive neural implementation. We conclude that cognitive reserve is compatible and complementary with many related concepts, but that each much draw sharper conceptual boundaries in order to truly explain preserved cognitive function in the face of aging or brain damage.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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