British and Finnish researchers studied the cases of 832 elderly people, who participated in surveys on aging. The conclusions of these analyzes are clear: the appearance of brain lesions, characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease, are inevitable, whatever their level of study. However, people with long education did not suffer from Alzheimer’s disease during their lifetime, while those with a short education were more affected by the disease.
How is this difference explained? In fact, the longer we study, the better able we are to clinically manage the brain damage inherent in aging. The profession would play a lesser role, since everything would be based on the development of neurons before the age of 25.
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