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Cognitive Reserve
Cognitive reserve is the brain's capacity to cope with aging and damage through lifelong learning, social ties, and activity. It may delay noticeable cognitive decline.
Cognitive reserve is the brain's buffer against aging and pathology—built through education, complex work, social ties, physical activity, and novel learning. Higher reserve does not prevent disease but can delay symptom impact.
Sleep, blood pressure, and aerobic fitness also protect cognition.
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Can brain games build cognitive reserve?
Games help specific skills but broad reserve grows from aerobic exercise, social connection, sleep, and learning new complex skills—not one app alone.
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