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Contribution of four lifelong factors of cognitive reserve on late cognition in normal aging and Parkinson’s disease
Rouillard, Maud; Audiffren, Michel; Albinet, Cédric et al.
2017In Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 39, p. 142-162
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Keywords :
Parkinson; cognition; cognitive reserve
Abstract :
[en] Introduction. Cognitive reserve (CR) was proposed to explain how individual differences in brain function help to cope with the effects of normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Education, professional solicitations, engagement in leisure and physical activities across the lifetime are considered as major determinants of this reserve. Method. Using multiple linear regression analyses, we tested separately in healthy elderly and Parkinson's disease (PD) populations to what extent cognitive performance in several domains was explained by (1) any of these four environmental lifespan variables ; (2) demographic and clinical variables (age, gender, depression score and, for the PD group, duration of disease and dopaminergic drugs). We also tested for an interaction, if any, between these lifespan variables and brain pathology indexed by global atrophy measured from high-resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging. Results. Age was negatively associated with cognitive performance in the PD group. In healthy elderly participants, we observed significant positive associations between cognitive performance and 1) education, 2) leisure activities, 3) professional solicitation (decisional latitude). Furthermore, participants with greater brain atrophy benefited more from CR. In PD patients, education and professional solicitations contributed to cognitive performance but to a lesser extent than in controls. CR factors modulated the relationship between cognition and brain atrophy only in patients with a slight or moderate brain atrophy. Conclusions. Education is the CR factor that contributed the most to late cognitive functioning in both groups, closely followed by leisure activity in normal aging and professional solicitations in PD. Our results also provide evidence suggesting that the effects of CR does not express similarly in normal aging and PD. From a broader perspective, these results seem to indicate that CR factors the most consistently practiced across lifespan (education and professional solicitation) are those that are the more strongly associated to late cognitive efficiency.
Research center :
GIGA CRC (Cyclotron Research Center) In vivo Imaging-Aging & Memory - ULiège
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Rouillard, Maud 
Audiffren, Michel
Albinet, Cédric
Bahri, Mohamed Ali  ;  Université de Liège > Département de physique > Département de physique
Garraux, Gaëtan  ;  Université de Liège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biochimie et physiologie du système nerveux
Collette, Fabienne  ;  Université de Liège > Département de Psychologie > Neuropsychologie
Language :
English
Title :
Contribution of four lifelong factors of cognitive reserve on late cognition in normal aging and Parkinson’s disease
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
ISSN :
1380-3395
eISSN :
1744-411X
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
39
Pages :
142-162
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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