AD and Nuns...

I know there were a couple more questions about the Nun Study that came up in class on Monday.  I haven't been able to find anything about the differences in lesions but something I found was interesting...

In my other research of the Nun Study I didn't see the references to early cognitive ability that this review talks about.  It basically says that early linguistic skills can be markers for later cognitive issues.  The Nuns with lower linguistic skills earlier in life showed more cognitive issues later in life.  Here is the article:

http://www.alzheimers.org/nianews/nianews6.html