A potential protective effect in multilingual patients with semantic dementia: Two case reports of patients speaking Taiwanese and Japanese

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-30

  Liu, Yi Chien ^a,b,c   Yip, Ping Keung ^b,c   Fan, Yu Ming ^b,c   Meguro, Kenichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CARDINAL TIEN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive reserve; Multilingualism; Neurodegenerative disease; Primary progressive dementia; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; READING; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH; TAIWAN; WRITING;

EID: 84863672542     PISSN: 1028768X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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