Bob Demarco ran a prescient essay suggesting one avenue the search for the key is taking. I find it interesting, more than that significant and could be on the money. The title of it is: Lower Biomarker Levels, Less Education Associated With Greater Cognitive Decline. Read it by clicking on the title and going to Alzheimer’s Reading Room or on Archive where I have posted it.
We can do so much ourselves, to keep us cognitively cooking. The Best Practices is first in line:, the self confidence that it makes a difference is its identical twin. Although the statistical analysis deals with specific measurable results, which it must as a statistical study, reading between its lines I see so much more.
Where is the chicken and the egg that produces the result concluded in the article, namely that.
Older adults without dementia and with lower levels in plasma of the biomarkers beta-amyloid…. had an increased rate of cognitive decline over a period of 9 years…. relationship was stronger among individuals with less education and lower levels of literacy
… Older adults with low reserve .. had an even greater association with beta-amyloid… whereas those with high reserve had less association.
Between the lines, not statistically able to be proven I surmise, keep at the Best Practices, of them double up on Stimulating Social, Intellectual and Creative activities to increase that cognitive reserve.
I believe this corollary may yet prove to be right: Spend less mindless activity such as TV, avoid activity whose only value is distraction > Sit Com TV, Cable New creating its own emotional need, Ball Games, the too many other mindless activity with which out of laziness we tend to be attracted. Make your activity some form of interface with the mind included in that interface.
The greater correlation with cognitive reserve may be no more than the result of more education tends to make the mind more curious than that of the normal carrier.
This could be the egg that hatched the chicken.
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