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

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Published in Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord on May 27, 2010

Authors

Howard Chertkow1, Victor Whitehead, Natalie Phillips, Christina Wolfson, Julie Atherton, Howard Bergman

Author Affiliations

1: Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and Jewish General Hospital/McGill University Memory Clinic, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. howard.chertkow@mcgill.ca

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