Bilingualism delays of several years the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a Canadian study published in the journal Neurology. This period may reach five years.
Alzheimers Disease Patient
Fergus Craik and his colleagues at the Rotman Institute Associate at York University in Toronto, studied the medical records of more than 200 people with Alzheimer’s half of whom were bilingual.
In people who had spoken two or more languages in daily for several years the disease symptoms (such as memory loss, confusion, difficulty solving problems and predicting future events) appeared later.
In 2007, work on the same team had already shown symptoms of the disease at 75.7 years on average in bilinguals and 71.4 years for unilingual.
Speaking more than one language would help the brain to constitute “reserves” that would help to better cope with brain damage brought on by the disease.
Several studies have shown that being active mentally retarded disease. Last September, a study also published in the journal Neurology, showed that among people intellectually active, the disease appeared later but was then accelerated its development. The authors suggested that cognitive activity improves the brain’s ability to maintain normal operation as the disease develops but when the disease was finally diagnosed it seems to be at a later stage.
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