the concept of cognitive reserve

• P- evidence suggests that a person's educational attainment may influence how well the brain functionally adapts after injury
• E- Eric Schneider et al (2014) discovered that the more time brain injury patients had spent in education- which was taken as an indication of their 'cognitive reserve'- the greater their chances of a disability-free recovery
• E- two fifths of patients studied who achieved DFR had more than 16 years' education compared to about 10% of of patients who had less than 12 years' education