Highly educated people face steeper mental declines after stroke

When someone has a stroke, it can accelerate the loss of cognitive ability over the coming years.

Stroke survivors who have attended some level of higher education may face even steeper mental declines, according to a study led by Michigan Medicine.

In an analysis of cognitive outcomes for more than 2,000 patients seen for stroke between 1971 and 2019, college graduates performed better on initial post-stroke examinations of global cognition, a measure of overall cognitive ability that…

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News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

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