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Getty Images New research shows that adults may have been onto something when they told you to "stay in school" as a kid. A new review, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, found that formal education is strongly related to cognitive functioning across all adult ages, cultural contexts, races, and genders. The paper finds that education, especially earlier in life, can play a role in delaying the onset of dementia. "From a public-health perspective, education appears to be one of the best-established preventive measures for dementia, and newly
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