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The relationship between linguistic ability, multilingualism, and dementia

van den Noort, Maurits ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Staudte, Heike ; Perriard, Benoît ; Bosch, Peggy ; Lim, Sabina

In: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2019, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 1041–1044

In a recent article of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Hack et al. (2019) argue that linguistic ability rather than multilingualism is a significant predictor of dementia. In their longitudinal study, they investigated 325 religious sisters who were older than 75 years of age. Self-reports were used in order to determine multilingualism. They found that speaking two or three languages...

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Olfactory dysfunction in the pathophysiological continuum of dementia

Bathini, Praveen ; Brai, Emanuele ; Alberi Auber, Lavinia

In: Ageing Research Reviews, 2019, vol. 55, p. 100956

Sensory capacities like smell, taste, hearing, vision decline with aging, but increasing evidence show that sensory dysfunctions are one of the early signs diagnosing the conversion from physiological to pathological brain state. Smell loss represents the best characterized sense in clinical practice and is considered as one of the first preclinical signs of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s...

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A systematic review on the possible relationship between bilingualism, cognitive decline, and the onset of dementia

Noort, Maurits Van den ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Bosch, Peggy ; Staudte, Heike ; Krajenbrink, Trudy ; Jaswetz, Lars ; Struys, Esli ; Yeo, Sujung ; Barisch, Pia ; Perriard, Benoît ; Lee, Sook-Hyun ; Lim, Sabina

In: Behavioral Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 81

A systematic review was conducted to investigate whether bilingualism has a protective effect against cognitive decline in aging and can protect against dementia. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases with a cut-off date of 31 March 2019, thereby following the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) protocol....