Speaking More Than One Language Could Prevent Alzheimer's

by Nancy Shute

January 10, 2013 4:15 PM

Health News From NPR

...Earlier research has found that people bilingual since childhood are better at the high-order thinking called executive function as they age...Neuroscientists think that having more reserve brain power helps compensate for age-related declines in thinking and memory, and may help protect against the losses caused by Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. The study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience...

See: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/10/169066535/speaking-more-than-one-language-could-prevent-alzheimers?ft=1&f=1028