Resumen de Learn une autre langue to hold off dementia
Thomas Bak, at the University of Edinburgh in UK, wanted to know whether Alzheimer's disease was truly down to language, or whether education or immigration status might be driving the delay. So his team compared the age dementia symptoms appeared in some 650 natives of Hyderabad India, over a six-year period. The same pattern appeared for Alzheimer's, frontotemporal and vascular dementia. The results also held true for a group of people who were illiterate, suggesting that the benefits of being bilingual don't depend on education.
