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This heterogeneity is captured by three partly dissociable constructs\u2014brain reserve, cognitive reserve, and brain maintenance\u2014here grouped under the superordinate term cognitive resilience. Cognitive reserve has traditionally been indexed by education, occupational complexity, and lifelong cognitive engagement, yet its biological substrates remain incompletely defined. We propose that hippocampal vascular supply and perivascular (glymphatic) and meningeal lymphatic clearance, modulated by blood\u2013brain barrier integrity and neuroinflammatory tone, constitute one biological substrate of resilience. We make its conceptual placement explicit: these processes operate predominantly as substrates of brain maintenance (efficient clearance limiting amyloid-\u03b2 and tau accumulation) and brain reserve (a redundant hippocampal arterial supply buffering partial vascular compromise), rather than of cognitive reserve sensu stricto. 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