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

S Alladi, TH Bak, V Duggirala, B Surampudi… - Neurology, 2013 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to determine the association between bilingualism
and age at onset of dementia and its subtypes, taking into account potential confounding …

Bilingualism delays clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease

EVY Woumans, P Santens, A Sieben… - Bilingualism …, 2015 - cambridge.org
The current study investigated the effects of bilingualism on the clinical manifestation of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a European sample of patients. We assessed all incoming AD …

Delaying the onset of Alzheimer disease: Bilingualism as a form of cognitive reserve

FIM Craik, E Bialystok, M Freedman - Neurology, 2010 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives: There is strong epidemiologic evidence to suggest that older adults who
maintain an active lifestyle in terms of social, mental, and physical engagement are …

Multilingualism (but not always bilingualism) delays the onset of Alzheimer disease: evidence from a bilingual community

H Chertkow, V Whitehead, N Phillips… - Alzheimer Disease & …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
A recent paper by Bialystok et al in Neuropsychologia (vol. 45, pgs. 459 to 464) suggested
that early bilingualism produced a statistically significant 4.1-year delay in onset of memory …

Age of dementia diagnosis in community dwelling bilingual and monolingual Hispanic Americans

DM Lawton, PG Gasquoine, AA Weimer - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
Bilingualism has been reported to delay the age of retrospective report of first symptom in
dementia. This study determined if the age of clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and …

The effect of bilingualism on amnestic mild cognitive impairment

L Ossher, E Bialystok, FIM Craik… - … Sciences and Social …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objectives. Previous reports have found that lifelong bilingualism is associated with a delay
in the onset of dementia, including Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (DAT). Because …

Does bilingualism influence cognitive aging?

TH Bak, JJ Nissan, MM Allerhand… - Annals of neurology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests a positive impact of bilingualism on cognition, including later
onset of dementia. However, monolinguals and bilinguals might have different baseline …

Bilingualism as a protection against the onset of symptoms of dementia

E Bialystok, FIM Craik, M Freedman - Neuropsychologia, 2007 - Elsevier
This study examined the effect of lifelong bilingualism on maintaining cognitive functioning
and delaying the onset of symptoms of dementia in old age. The sample was selected from …

Degree of bilingualism predicts age of diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in low-education but not in highly educated Hispanics

TH Gollan, DP Salmon, RI Montoya, DR Galasko - Neuropsychologia, 2011 - Elsevier
The current study investigated the relationship between bilingual language proficiency and
onset of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) in 44 Spanish–English bilinguals at the UCSD …

Is bilingualism associated with a lower risk of dementia in community-living older adults? Cross-sectional and prospective analyses

CM Yeung, PDS John, V Menec… - Alzheimer Disease & …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether bilingualism is associated with
dementia in cross-sectional or prospective analyses of older adults. Methods: In 1991, 1616 …