The study provides the first biological proof of education's possible protective effect, although there have been earlier hints.
“The more education, the better the brain can tolerate the accumulation of the disease,'' said Dr David A. Bennett, lead investigator of the study and director of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Centre in Chicago, in the United States.
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