Bilingualism protects anterior temporal lobe integrity in aging

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2126-2133

  Abutalebi, Jubin ^a,b   Canini, Matteo ^b,c   Della Rosa, Pasquale A ^c   Sheung, Lo Ping ^a   Green, David W ^d   Weekes, Brendan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingualism; Language proficiency; Temporal pole (TP); Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MONOLINGUALISM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBE; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTION;

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84902115291     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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