The University of Barcelona has echoed a new publication carried out by researchers from our faculty.

With the title the press release explains how an intellectually active lifestyle — in other words, the so-called cognitive reserve — has a protective effect on the progression and severity of the symptoms of motor, cognitive and psychiatric impairments in Huntington’s disease.

As part of the study, predoctoral researcher Audrey De Paepe, from the UB’s Faculty of Psychology and IDIBELL, and other experts, led by Professor Estela Camara (UB and IDIBELL), assessed the cognitive reserve of a group of patients through factors such as the level of education, professional occupation, academic and musical courses, the number of languages known, reading activity or the frequency with which they played intellectually complex games such as chess.

You can have access to the full report at https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/lifestyle-huntington-disease.