Cognitive reserve in young and old healthy subjects: differences and similarities in a testing-the-limits paradigm with DSST.

Cognitive reserve (CR) is understood as capacity to cope with challenging conditions, e.g. after brain injury or in states of brain dysfunction, or age-related cognitive decline. CR in elderly subjects has attracted much research interest, but differences between healthy older and younger subjects h...

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Main Authors: Josef Zihl, Thomas Fink, Florian Pargent, Matthias Ziegler, Markus Bühner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3880294?pdf=render