Bilingualism as a protection against the onset of symptoms of dementia.

By Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik, Morris Freedman. Neuropsychologia, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Ellen Bialystok
2. Debra Titone
3. Virginia Valian
4. G. Luk
5. David W. Green
6. Shari R. Baum
7. Matthew D. Hilchey
8. Raymond M. Klein

In Physiology

1. Ellen Bialystok

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Ellen Bialystok
2. Fergus I. M. Craik
3. Debra Titone
4. Virginia Valian
5. G. Luk

Citations in the corpus

• The Bilingual Adaptation: How Minds Accommodate Experience (2017, background): “A study by Alladi et al. (2013) conducted in India that included all levels of socioeconomic circumstances and education replicated the 4.5 year delay in symptoms of dementia initially reported by Bialystok et al. (2007).”
• Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “Bialystok, Craik, and Freedman (2007) conducted a study of hospital records and found that a sample of 93 lifelong bilinguals experienced the onset of symptoms of dementia some 4 years later than a comparable sample of 91 monolingual patients.”
• More Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Transformative Theory of Biculturalism (2017, background): “acquire multiple cultures along with their multiple languages, including those who are equally fluent in both languages, acquire the second language at a young age, know more than two languages, or acquire the second language as a result of migration (Bialystok et al., 2007; Chertow, Whitehead, Phil”
• Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes (2011, background): “In a similar vein of thought, Bialystok, Craik, and Freedman (2007) have shown that fluency in two languages protects against symptoms of dementia into old age.”
• Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain (2012, background): “To test this idea, Bialystok, Craik, and Freedman [124] examined the hospital records of monolingual and bilingual patients who had been diagnosed with various types of dementia.”
• A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive Correlates of Bilingualism (2010, background): “In a recent study on the effect of lifelong bilingualism on age-related cognitive decline, Bialystok et al. (2007) found that bilingual adults showed symptoms of dementia 4 years later than comparable monolinguals, even when other factors remained constant.”
• Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging (2014, background): “It is more striking that executive control advantages in bilingual older adults arguably forestall the onset of pathological aging symptoms by approximately 4 years (Bialystok et al., 2007), although there are limits on this estimate (Chertkow et al., 2010).”
• Bilingualism and cognition (2014, background): “The effects of bilingualism in slowing the onset of cognitive decline and dementia have been explored in a number of studies, starting with Bialystok, Craik, and Freedman (2007), who reported that bilinguals experienced dementia more than four years later than monolinguals.”