Cognitive reserve (CR) is a concept meant to account for the frequent discrepancy between
an individual's measured level of brain pathology and her expected cognitive performance. It …

The cerebellum has long been regarded as essential only for the coordination of voluntary
motor activity and motor learning. Anatomical, clinical and neuroimaging studies have led to …

More educated elders are less susceptible to age-related or pathological cognitive changes.
We aimed at providing a comprehensive contribution to the neural mechanism underlying …

In the past decade, a “default mode network”(DMN) has been highlighted in neuroimaging
studies as a set of brain regions showing increased activity in task‐free state compared to …

Although in the last decade brain activation in healthy aging and dementia was mainly
studied using task-activation fMRI, there is increasing interest in task-induced decreases in …

The aging brain is shaped by many structural and functional alterations. Recent cross-
disciplinary efforts have uncovered powerful and integrated adaptive mechanisms that …

Most of the previous task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies found
abnormalities in distributed brain regions in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's …

The large majority of neuroimaging studies in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients have
supported the idea that lifestyle factors may protect against the clinical manifestations of AD …

Level of education is often regarded as a proxy for cognitive reserve in older adults. This
implies that brain degeneration has a smaller effect on cognitive decline in those with more …

This article addresses an important and barely researched topic: what happens to children
with autism spectrum disorders when they grow old. We review the small published literature …