Lifelong bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve against white matter integrity declines in aging

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2841-2846

  Gold, Brian T ^a,b   Johnson, Nathan F ^a   Powell, David K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingualism; Brain reserve; Cognitive reserve; DTI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIFESPAN; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PEER GROUP; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN RESERVE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DTI;

AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84886305015     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.037     Document Type: Article

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