Does multilingualism affect the incidence of Alzheimer's disease?: A worldwide analysis by country

SSM - Population Health

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages 463-467

  Klein, Raymond M ^a   Christie, John ^a   Parkvall, Mikael ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Bilingualism; Brain reserve; Dementia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976415395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23528273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.06.002     Document Type: Article

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