"More education is not associated with any differences in the damage to the brain, but people with higher education can cope with that damage better," said Hanna Keage, a researcher from Cambridge University who worked on the study. "Our study shows education in early life appears to enable some people to cope with a lot of changes in their brain before showing dementia symptoms."
Over the last several years, studies on dementia found the more time people spend in education, the lower the risk of dementia. But until now, scientists were not sure if this was because education protected the brain against damage or because it made people better able to cope.
