Can Your Job Change How Your Brain Ages?
In short: More complex work is associated with better thinking in later life, but genes, childhood circumstances and working conditions complicate the picture, and the link is not proof of cause.
A 2:07 short film in the series “Rabbit Hole: Memory, Preference and the Brain”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: PubMed Central (U.S. National Library of Medicine), author manuscript of an article in Alzheimer's & Dementia (2023), “Association of primary lifetime occupational cognitive complexity and cognitive decline in a diverse cohort: results from the KHANDLE study”; PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a peer-reviewed cross-cohort analysis, “The long arm of childhood socioeconomic deprivation on mid‐ to later‐life cognitive trajectories: A cross‐cohort analysis”; European Journal of Epidemiology (Springer Nature), “Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions - European Journal of Epidemiology”; BMC Medicine (Springer Nature), “Association of shift work with incident dementia: a community-based cohort study - BMC Medicine”; PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a peer-reviewed cohort study, “Lifestyle Enrichment in Later Life and Its Association With Dementia Risk”; World Health Organization (WHO), Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health team, “Risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia: WHO guidelines, second edition”; WHO authors' paper, hosted on PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), “Reducing the Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia: WHO Recommendations”.
Sources used in this film
- PubMed Central (U.S. National Library of Medicine), author manuscript of an article in Alzheimer's & Dementia (2023) — Association of primary lifetime occupational cognitive complexity and cognitive decline in a diverse cohort: results from the KHANDLE study · View →
- PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a peer-reviewed cross-cohort analysis — The long arm of childhood socioeconomic deprivation on mid‐ to later‐life cognitive trajectories: A cross‐cohort analysis · View →
- European Journal of Epidemiology (Springer Nature) — Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions - European Journal of Epidemiology · View →
- BMC Medicine (Springer Nature) — Association of shift work with incident dementia: a community-based cohort study - BMC Medicine · View →
- PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a peer-reviewed cohort study — Lifestyle Enrichment in Later Life and Its Association With Dementia Risk · View →
- World Health Organization (WHO), Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health team — Risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia: WHO guidelines, second edition · View →
- WHO authors' paper, hosted on PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine) — Reducing the Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia: WHO Recommendations · View →
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- Summary by Intellect · source: PubMed Central (U.S. National Library of Medicine), author manuscript of an article in Alzheimer's & Dementia (2023): Association of primary lifetime occupational cognitive complexity and cognitive decline in a diverse cohort: results from the KHANDLE study
- Also: PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a peer-reviewed cross-cohort analysis: The long arm of childhood socioeconomic deprivation on mid‐ to later‐life cognitive trajectories: A cross‐cohort analysis
- Also: European Journal of Epidemiology (Springer Nature): Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions - European Journal of Epidemiology
- Also: BMC Medicine (Springer Nature): Association of shift work with incident dementia: a community-based cohort study - BMC Medicine
- Also: PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a peer-reviewed cohort study: Lifestyle Enrichment in Later Life and Its Association With Dementia Risk
- Also: World Health Organization (WHO), Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health team: Risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia: WHO guidelines, second edition
- Also: WHO authors' paper, hosted on PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine): Reducing the Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia: WHO Recommendations
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