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Friday, February 21, 2014

Learning a new language helps against Alzheimer's


This surprising claim is the result of recent research conducted at the University "York" from Toronto. The group led by psychologist Ellen Bialystok tested 450 patients with Alzheimer's disease. People who were examined were divided into two categories - the first category consists of people who speak only one language, the second by people who speak two or more languages.



Examination prompted a fascinating finding.

In fact, even if all patients had similar cognitive level, in terms of patients who were bilingual disease developed on average four years later than the monolingual patients. The difference in the appearance of the first symptoms was again about 5 years.

It is believed that this phenomenon occurs due to the fact that the people who are multilingual brain is more stimulated. Also presumably among them is activated and a portion of the brain network that serves as the system that controls the execution of orders. In people who speak two or more languages this section is constantly used in order to prevent interference between the known languages.

Finally, Dr. Bialystok says that although the fact that a person speaks more than one language does not prevent the disease occur, it will help the person to become much more resilient to the effects of it.

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