Quantifying longitudinal cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease and other neuropathologies

Autor: Maude Wagner, Robert S. Wilson, Sue E. Leurgans, Patricia A. Boyle, David A. Bennett, Francine Grodstein, Ana W. Capuano
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Alzheimer's & Dementia. 18:2252-2261
ISSN: 1552-5279
1552-5260
DOI: 10.1002/alz.12576
Popis: Cognitive resilience (CR) has been defined as the continuum of better (or worse) than expected cognition, given the degree of neuropathology. To quantify this concept, existing approaches focus on either cognitive level at a single time point or slopes of cognitive decline.In a prospective study of 1215 participants, we created a continuous measure of CR defined as the mean of differences between estimated person-specific and marginal cognitive levels over time, after accounting for neuropathologies.Neuroticism and depressive symptoms were associated with all CR measures (P-values .012); as expected, cognitive activity and education were only associated with the cognitive-level approaches (P-values .0002). However, compared with the existing CR measures focusing on a single measure or slopes of cognition, our new measure yielded stronger relations with risk factors.Defining CR based on the longitudinal differences between person-specific and marginal cognitive levels is a novel and complementary way to quantify CR.
Databáze: OpenAIRE