Dementia and Education: A Relation Found By Scientists

Among the brain problems faced by people worldwide, dementia is a very common one and it is basically a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person.

Image by topnews

This Monday scientists have shown some really amazing facts regarding this problem and according to that the educated people are better able to cope with the physical effects of dementia and even one extra year of education can effectively cut the risk of developing the brain-wasting disease.

Previously no such findings have been shown and this one is really amazing, a group of Britain and Finland have shown these results and according to them the people who have taken education in universities after school or college appears to be less affected by brain changes that are usually associated with dementia.

According to Hanna Keage from Cambridge University, who worked on the study with an Anglo-Finnish team “More education is not associated with any differences in the damage to the brain, but people with higher education can cope with that damage better”.

The researchers have still shown that it would be wrong to say that the mind of educated person is different from that of an uneducated person but the difference comes in the coping ability of patients for this problem and that is comparatively much better in educated people than that of the uneducated people.

Almost 872 people were examined in this study and they were asked about their education history like when they left school and either they joined some university or not, the conclusion that came out says that “Our study shows education in early life appears to enable some people to cope with a lot of changes in their brain before showing dementia symptoms” according to Keage.