A study by UK and Finnish team suggest that education can help in compensating for the effects caused by dementia on the human brain. Though the signs of dementia in brains at death were more or less similar in both the highly educated and the less educated ones, the former were found to display symptoms less likely. But the scientists are yet to find the reason for this effect. Studies on dementia in the past few years have shown that the risk of dementia is reduced if an individual spends more time in education. But whether education actually protects against dementia in brain wasn’t proved. The study involved examination of [...]