{"id":5234,"date":"2010-07-28T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:25:00","slug":"another-benefit-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5234","title":{"rendered":"Education &amp; Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to ScienceDaily&#8217;s article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/07\/100725203914.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\">Why More Education Lowers Dementia Risk<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;studies on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/dementia.html\">dementia<\/a> have consistently showed that the more time you spend in education, the lower your risk of dementia. For each additional year of education there is an 11% decrease in risk of developing dementia, this study reports.&#8221; But why? Apparently an increased exposure to education enables us to better compensate for changes in our brains before we show dementia symptoms, according to a recent study.<\/p>\n<p>Read the research article online: <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/brain.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/133\/8\/2210\">Education, the brain and dementia: Neuroprotection or compensation?<\/a> (<em>Brain<\/em>, 2010, vol.133, pp.2210-2216, doi:10.1093\/brain\/awq185).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/othbrain.jpg\" alt=\"The Other Brain cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>In addition to the article in <em>Brain<\/em>, <strong>Andersen Library has additional resources on the various forms of dementia and cognitive reserves<\/strong>. Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCAt online catalog<\/a> to find books such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2nmHpXPmV80C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;cd=1&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><em>The other brain: From dementia to schizophrenia, how new discoveries about the brain are revolutionizing medicine and science <\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor New Book Island, QP376 .F46 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Search <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">article databases<\/a> to find articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=MImg&amp;_imagekey=B6SYS-4WV15JG-1-S&amp;_cdi=4842&amp;_user=2614375&amp;_pii=S0165017309000770&amp;_orig=search&amp;_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2009&amp;_sk=999389997&amp;view=c&amp;wchp=dGLzVtz-zSkzk&amp;md5=85407f0d3667686c02297253ec86fb29&amp;ie=\/sdarticle.pdf\">On whether the environmental enrichment may provide cognitive and brain reserves<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Brain Research Reviews<\/em>, 2009, vol.61:no.2, pp.221-239).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ScienceDaily&#8217;s article &#8220;Why More Education Lowers Dementia Risk,&#8221; &#8220;studies on dementia have consistently showed that the more time you spend in education, the lower your risk of dementia. For each additional year of education there is an 11% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[141,178,2990,218],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-dementia","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}