Posts Tagged ‘Dementia’
Bilingualism against Alzheimer’s disease?
Author: JillSurmont February 16th, 2011Although it is said that wisdom comes with age, people of a respectable age often have to deal with all sorts of cognitive problems. This decay of the brain can be divided in two types of aging: a healthy aging process and a pathological aging process, meaning that a disease is the cause of much of the problems. In recent research, both aging processes are linked with bilingualism, based on the idea that if bilingual brains work differently, then maybe the aging process will differ as well. Read More
