Efficiency, capacity, compensation, maintenance, plasticity: emerging concepts in cognitive reserve
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Efficiency, capacity, compensation, maintenance, plasticity: emerging concepts in cognitive reserve.
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 ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1364-6613
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.08.012