Beyond Alzheimer’s disease: can bilingualism be a more generalized protective factor in neurodegeneration?

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Voits, T., Pliatsikas, C. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773, Robson, H. and Rothman, J. (2020) Beyond Alzheimer’s disease: can bilingualism be a more generalized protective factor in neurodegeneration? Neuropsychologia, 147. 107593. ISSN 0028-3932 doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107593

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Bilingualism has been argued to have an impact on cognition and brain structure. Effects have been reported across the lifespan: from healthy children to ageing adults, including clinical (ageing) populations. It has been argued that active bilingualism may significantly contribute to the delaying of the expression of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. If bilingualism plays an ameliorative role against the expression of neurodegeneration in dementia, it is possible that it could have similar effects for other neurodegenerative disorders, including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s Diseases. To date, however, direct relevant evidence remains limited, not least because the necessary scientific motivations for investigating this with greater depth have not yet been fully articulated. Herein, we provide a roadmap that reviews the relevant literatures, highlighting potential links across neurodegenerative disorders and bilingualism more generally.

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Item Type Article
URI https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/92579
Identification Number/DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107593
Refereed Yes
Divisions Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM)
Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
Uncontrolled Keywords Bilingualism; dementia; cognitive reserve; Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple sclerosis.
Publisher Elsevier
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