Can your Conscience Protect you From Alzheimer
Date: Tuesday January 6, 2009Posted in: xn--nqv032a89i.com edit
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Conscientiousness refers to your willful desire to work in a dependable manner with attention to detail. Since the 1940s, the psychology field has considered conscientiousness as one of five major personality traits, the others being neuroticism, extraversion, openness and agreeableness. Now, new research shows that your level of conscientiousness may affect your level of Brain Fitness.
A little extra effort may be good for your brain
Researchers tested nearly a thousand older adults that were free of any kind of dementia, rated them on the five personality traits and then followed them for 12 years. They discovered that high scores in conscientiousness were protective against developing Alzheimers disease down the road.
Previous studies had already shown that Alzheimers disease patients have lower scores of conscientiousness. What was not known, is whether conscientiousness simply declined with the disease or whether having low conscientiousness scores in the first place put you at higher risk for getting the disease, which the new data confirms.
The reason high conscientiousness might protect you from late-life dementia is not clear, but the research team offered some speculation. They first considered that people with higher degrees of conscientiousness take better care of themselves and are therefore in better cardiovascular health, which also relates to Alzheimers disease. However, when they controlled for this by comparing high and low conscientious people in similar cardiovascular health, it did not explain the difference.
Another area they speculated on related more to the idea of cognitive reserve, which I have discussed in the past. They used the term
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