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SUMMARY:Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Bio
 logy Meet - Professor Ian Robertson\, Professor of Psychology\, Trinity Co
 llege Dublin
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Why does education appear to protect against Alzheimer’s Dis
 ease? Why does the cognition-biology link break down in rich social networ
 ks? What it is about mental engagement that appears to delay the onset of 
 Alzheimer’s Disease? \n\nThese are all elements of what has been called 
 ‘cognitive reserve’\, a term coined by Yakov Stern. The magnitude of t
 his cognition-pathology discrepancy is considerable\, estimated by Valenzu
 ela and Sachdev in their meta-analysis of education\, occupation\, IQ and 
 mental activities components of brain reserve as a mean odds ratio of 0.54
  for lowered risk of incident dementia over a median 7.1 year period.\n\nI
 n this talk I will outline a possible common biological pathway that may o
 ffer a possible explanation for these relationships\, and will outline the
  significance of this for the prevention\, treatment and management of wha
 t will be the overwhelming social and health problem in future decades. \n
 Valenzuela\, M. J.\, & Sachdev\, P. (2006). Brain reserve and dementia: a 
 systematic review. Psychological Medicine\, 36(04)\, 441-454.\n  \nIan Rob
 ertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and was foundi
 ng Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and a member of t
 he Royal Irish Academy. He is director of the NIEL programme (Neuroenhance
 ment for Inequalities in Elder Lives - www.tcd.ie/neuroscience/niel). He i
 s a principal investigator on TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Li
 ving www.trilcentre.org) and on the TCIN-GSK Consortium on Neurodegenerati
 on. Previously a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences 
 Unit in Cambridge\, where he was also a fellow at Hughes Hall\, Ian Robert
 son continues to be a Visiting Professor at University College London\, a 
 Visiting Professor at University of Wales at Bangor and is a Visiting Scie
 ntist at the Rotman Research Institute\, University of Toronto.\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Experimental Psychol
 ogy
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