5 Ways to Boost Cognitive Reserve [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/12/164:00 AM

You may have heard that we are born with all the brain cells we’ll ever have. That’s not completely true. After we’re born, the brain continues to develop new cells until around age 2. At that point we mostly have all the brain cells we’ll ever have. However, there’s even an exception to this. There’s a portion of the brain called the hippocampus that is thought to be able to produce new cells with memory and learning.

Since science hasn’t yet found a way to regrow brain cells, it seems like anything that develops abnormally or is damaged in any way leaves us basically out of luck. That can certainly be the case, but the brain can actually find a way around that. The brain can bypass or compensate for this using what’s called cognitive reserve.

[For more of this story, written by LaRae LaBouff, go to http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...t-cognitive-reserve/]

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