Does childhood cognition predict dementia risk later in life?
Written by Lisa Templeton
To what extent do factors such as education and socioeconomic position affect our thinking skills and memory over time? Not as much as one might think, a new study suggests.
The study set out to investigate what influences a person's cognitive ability — that is, their ability to think, reason, and remember — over a lifetime.
The researchers hoped that by getting an insight into what impacts people's cognitive ability, they might be able to shed some light on factors that lead to cognitive decline in later life, including Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Dementia, which affects around 5.8 million people in the United States, can cause a decline in a person's ability to solve problems, remember, speak, and think. In its most severe form, dementia has a significant impact on a person's ability to carry out daily ...