Leonor Agan
leonoragan.bsky.social
Leonor Agan
@leonoragan.bsky.social
🇮🇪🇩🇪 PhD in Medical Research
Interests: 🧠 development, ageing, cognition
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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...

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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...
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:04 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....
August 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM