Latest medical research: Further education is the way to handle Memory loss

Further education helps the person to overcome dementia, say scientists. People who carry on their study after graduation appear to be less affected by brain changes as compared to those who ceases education early.

Dementia, which causes memory loss and confused thinking, affects more than 800,000, mostly older people, in the UK. More than half have Alzheimer's, the most common form of the disease.

Further education has reduced the risk of dementia by 11%. In the following research the brain of 872 people was examined for research by Eclipse(Epidemiological Clinicopathalogical Studies in Europe).
Of the donors, 56 per cent were suffering from dementia when they died, the scientists reported.

Once again an association was found between more education and less risk of dementia symptoms. But surprisingly, education appeared to have no impact on levels of dementia-associated brain damage.