Bilingualism delays clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease

Bilingualism

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 568-574

  Woumans, Evy ^a   Santens, Patrick ^b   Sieben, Anne ^b   Versijpt, Jan ^c   Stevens, Michaël ^a   Duyck, Wouter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; bilingualism; cognitive aging; cognitive reserve; dementia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929903284     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136672891400087X     Document Type: Article

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