Bilingualism, dementia and the tale of many variables: Why we need to move beyond the Western World. Commentary on Lawton et al. (2015) and Fuller-Thomson (2015)

Cortex

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 315-317

  Bak, Thomas H ^a,b   Alladi, Suvarna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; BILINGUALISM; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOTE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84956590405     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.04.025     Document Type: Note

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