What is cognitive reserve? Theory and research application of the reserve concept

By Yaakov Stern. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Enrichment Effects on Adult Cognitive Development (2008, background): “A third rival hypothesis is that mentally stimulating activity is associated with features of brain structure or function that somehow reduce the deleterious effects of common age-related neuropathology (Katzman et al., 1988; Satz, 1993; Stern, 2002; Wilson & Bennett, 2003).”
The Bilingual Adaptation: How Minds Accommodate Experience (2017, background): “It has long been known that cognitive decline with aging and dementia can be modulated by stimulating experiences, a concept known as cognitive reserve (Stern, 2002).”
Ageing and Skills: A Review and Analysis of Skill Gain and Skill Loss over the Lifespan and over Time. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 72. (2012, positive): “The theory underlying this concept (Stern, 2002; 2009; Satz, 1993; Katzman, 1993) suggests that some individual characteristics such as persistence or experiences including prior knowledge and skills may allow individuals to cope better than others with physical damages to the brain.”
Literacy and cognitive change among ethnically diverse elders (2004, background): “Cognitive reserve has been suggested as the mechanism for the link between low education and higher risk of dementia observed in these studies (Mortimer, 1988; Satz et al., 1993; Stern, 2002).”
Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. (2010, background): “The concept of “cognitive reserve” (Stern, 2002) has been productive for understanding how to protect against age-related functional decline; it may provide a parallel framework to clarify the putative protective effects of MT.”
Bilingualism as a protection against the onset of symptoms of dementia. (2007, background): “Notably, research on “cognitive reserve” has demonstrated that lifestyle factors, such as physical activity, stimulating leisure involvement, and social engagement play a role in postponing the onset of AD and other dementias (Alexander et al., 1997; Scarmeas, Levy, Tang, Manly, & Stern, 2001; Scarm”
Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals. (2008, background): “Recent evidence suggests a positive answer to this question; work on the concept of cognitive reserve, for example, has shown that involvement in stimulating intellectual activities protects against cognitive decline, despite the presence of relevant brain pathology (Stern, 2002).”
Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer Disease (2006, background): “In contrast, the cognitive reserve (CR) model suggests that the brain actively attempts to cope with brain damage by using preexisting cognitive processing approaches or by enlisting compensatory approaches.(4) Individuals with more CR would be more successful at coping with the same amount of brain”
Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent* (2009, background): “…reserve builds up from extended experience with stimulating activities and that this cognitive reserve protects against the onset of dementia (Stern, 2002; Stern et al., 2005), we investigated the possibility that bilingualism is one such experience that contributes to cognitive reserve…”