Bilingualism delays age at onset of dementia, independent of education and immigration status

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 1938-1944

  Alladi, Suvarna ^a   Bak, Thomas H ^b   Duggirala, Vasanta ^b,c   Surampudi, Bapiraju ^d,e   Shailaja, Mekala ^a   Shukla, Anuj Kumar ^a   Chaudhuri, Jaydip Ray ^f   Kaul, Subhash ^a  

^a NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

ACE R 5 Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination revised; AD 5 Alzheimer disease; CDR 5 Clinical Dementia Rating; DLB 5 dementia with Lewy bodies; FTD 5 frontotemporal dementia; GLM 5 general linear model; VaD 5 vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OCCUPATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SPEECH; URBAN AREA; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84891934356     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000436620.33155.a4     Document Type: Article

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