Association between reserve, white matter integrity and cognitive function in Taiwan community‐dwelling older adults
Tzu‐Chi Ou, Yi‐Fang Chuang · 2025
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Tzu-Chi Ou and Yi-Fang Chuang study how reserve protects thinking in older adults in Taiwan, in a 2025 paper. Reserve is the idea that schooling, skilled work, and a larger brain help people cope with age-related damage. The team asked whether reserve also ties to the health of white matter, the brain's wiring. Their sample lived in the community and had no dementia.
The study covered 379 older adults, 287 thinking normally and 92 with mild impairment. Schooling years and job skill formed a score for mental reserve, while head-size-adjusted brain volume stood for brain reserve. Mental reserve was tied to better scores in every thinking area, most strongly for memory and attention. Brain reserve helped attention in the healthy group only. The wiring results were mixed, and the authors treat them with care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tzu‐Chi Ou, Yi‐Fang Chuang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |