Research says learning foreign languages can help delay dementia.
Canada has found evidence that learning and using one or more foreign languages may help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
researchers in the Rotman Institute in Toronto, Canada, reported in the 9 - day American Journal of neurology that they investigated 211 patients who were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and analyzed their time, age, career experience, educational background and language. Fluency and so on. The researchers enrolled 102 of them in a foreign language proficiency group, while the other 109 were classified as only one language control group. The results showed that those who had been speaking two or more languages over the years had the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms at a maximum of 5 years later than only one language. The
Rotman Institute pointed out that the research data confirmed earlier speculation that one or more foreign languages could help the brain enhance a certain protective function and delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
researchers have stressed that they do not think that speaking foreign languages can prevent Alzheimer's disease, but that the use of a foreign language may help to establish "cognitive reserve", and "cognitive reserve" can help the brain to weaken some cognitive impairment and delay Alzheimer's disease.