@article{a40f8fce93b04829841fa52db91cf73d,
title = "Educational attainment does not influence brain aging",
abstract = "Education has been related to various advantageous lifetime outcomes. Here, using longitudinal structural MRI data (4,422 observations), we tested the influential hypothesis that higher education translates into slower rates of brain aging. Cross-sectionally, education was modestly associated with regional cortical volume. However, despite marked mean atrophy in the cortex and hippocampus, education did not influence rates of change. The results were replicated across two independent samples. Our findings challenge the view that higher education slows brain aging.",
keywords = "Aging, Cerebral cortex, Education, Hippocampus, Reserve, Humans, Middle Aged, Male, Aging/physiology, Brain/diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cerebral Cortex/diagnostic imaging, Hippocampus/diagnostic imaging, Female, Aged",
author = "Lars Nyberg and Fredrik Magnussen and Anders Lundquist and William Baar{\'e} and David Bartr{\'e}s-Faz and Lars Bertram and Boraxbekk, {C J} and Brandmaier, {Andreas M} and Drevon, {Christian A} and Klaus Ebmeier and Paolo Ghisletta and Henson, {Richard N} and Carme Junqu{\'e} and Rogier Kievit and Maike Kleemeyer and Ethan Knights and Simone K{\"u}hn and Ulman Lindenberger and Penninx, {Brenda W J H} and Sara Pudas and {\O}ystein S{\o}rensen and L{\'i}dia Vaqu{\'e}-Alc{\'a}zar and Walhovd, {Kristine B} and Fjell, {Anders M}",
note = "Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.",
year = "2021",
month = may,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1073/pnas.2101644118",
language = "English",
volume = "118",
pages = "1--3",
journal = "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America",
issn = "0027-8424",
publisher = "National Academy of Sciences",
number = "18",
}