Jessica de Leon, Stephanie Grasso, Isabel Elaine Allen, Danielle P Escueta, Yvette Vega, Malihe Eshghavi, Christa Watson, Nina Dronkers, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Maya L Henry
Bilingualism is thought to confer advantages in executive functioning, thereby contributing to cognitive reserve and a later age of dementia symptom onset. While the relation between bilingualism and age of onset has been explored in Alzheimer's dementia, there are few studies examining bilingualism as a contributor to cognitive reserve in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In line with previous findings, we hypothesized that bilinguals with behavioral variant FTD would be older at symptom onset compared to monolinguals, but that no such effect would be found in patients with nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (PPA) or semantic variant PPA...
March 2024: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition