Do professors/Highly educated ppl suffer from dementia too?

I was just wondering if there had been any cases where a Professor, doctor or some
other highly educated person suffered from Alzeheimer's ...I've never heard of any ...have you?
Answer:
Sure. Those people are human too. There are many obituaries in the paper that talk about famous highly educated creative people who have suffered from dementia in their old age.

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oh yes, it's an equal opportunity disease.
smart, educated people get it just as much as others.

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I can think of no neurological reason why education and Alzheimer's disease would be correlated in any way.

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Yes, although intellectually active persons are less likely to develop Alzheimer's, and generally do so at a slower rate. Some dementia is related to hardening of the arteries and diminished blood flow to the brain, and that is a product of genetics, dietary factors, and smoking.
Also, people with higher baseline IQ remain "normal" when their faculties decline for a while, so they can remain functional longer than someone whose baselie IQ is more borderline.

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Just read some articles that said that low IQ in childhood is correlated to late adult onset of altzheimer's. Educators and other professionals (MDs %26 Esqs) usually have an IQ of 120 and above. Is it possible for a child with a low IQ to raise it considerable by adulthood? Dunno.

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What the heck is ppl?

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I agree with greengo.
Dementia can affect everyone from all walks of life. Alzheimer is a type of dementia and is a hereditary form. You have heard of some famous people with Alzheimer, including late president Ronald Reagan. You just don't hear as much about Alzheimer in famour people because it is sort of taboo disease that no one want to talk about.
However, studies show that higher education and higher IQ will help decrease dementia to some degree. The idea is that, if you have higher education and higher IQ, you have more to start out, so if the rate of loss is the same, you will end up with more than those who start out much less. However, education and IQ do not prevent dementia and Alzheimer.

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They do, but intellectual exercise seems to delay symptoms.

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