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Yaakov Stern

Neurologist at Columbia University and the systematic originator of Cognitive Reserve Theory. In the 1990s, Stern established the theoretical framework describing how individual differences in neural and cognitive resources influence susceptibility to neurodegenerative disease onset and progression.

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The cognitive reserve theory was first systematically proposed by neuroscientist Yaakov Stern in the 1990s.

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Cognitive reserve theory was systematically proposed by Yaakov Stern of Columbia University in 2002.

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