Leonor Agan
@leonoragan.bsky.social
🇮🇪🇩🇪 PhD in Medical Research
Interests: 🧠 development, ageing, cognition
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Interests: 🧠 development, ageing, cognition
Fitness enthusiast 🏋🏼♀️💪🏃🏼♀️
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The emergence returns 👇
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Cognition is an emergent property
Cognition relies on the flexible organization of neural activity. In this discussion, we explore how many aspects of this organization can be describe…
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August 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The emergence returns 👇
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Reposted by Leonor Agan
🧠 Education boosts memory levels but not brain aging resistance
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries - Nature Medicine
In a large cross-national study, education was linked to better memory and larger brain volumes but not to slower cognitive or brain decline with age, suggesting that the association reflects early-li...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🧠 Education boosts memory levels but not brain aging resistance
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
In 2012, I was awarded the Health Research Board Summer Student Scholarship and got involved in this study as an undergraduate student in Ireland. Great to see this published.
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August 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In 2012, I was awarded the Health Research Board Summer Student Scholarship and got involved in this study as an undergraduate student in Ireland. Great to see this published.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....