Do High Mental Demands at Work Protect Cognitive Health in Old Age via Hippocampal Volume? Results From a Community Sample

Do High Mental Demands at Work Protect Cognitive Health in Old Age via Hippocampal Volume? Results From a Community Sample

As higher mental demands at work are associated with lower dementia risk and a key symptom of dementia is hippocampal atrophy, the study aimed at investigating the association between mental demands at work and hippocampal volume. We analyzed data from the population-based LIFE-Adult-Study in Leipzi...

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Main Authors: Francisca S. Rodriguez, Sebastian Huhn, William A. Vega, Maria P. Aranda, Matthias L. Schroeter, Christoph Engel, Ronny Baber, Ralph Burkhardt, Markus Löffler, Joachim Thiery, Arno Villringer, Tobias Luck, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, A. Veronica Witte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Subjects:
hippocampus
cognitive functioning
mental demands
intellectual activities
aging
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2020.622321/full

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