{"id":2138,"date":"2025-02-24T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/learning-another-language-can-stave-off-dementia\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:53:26","slug":"learning-another-language-can-stave-off-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/learning-another-language-can-stave-off-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning another language can stave off dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-24 12:53:26<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Learning a second language can help reduce the risk of getting dementia.<BR><br \/>\nNatalie Phillips, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, told New Scientist that being bilingual makes the size of the brain bigger.<BR><br \/>\nShe also highlighted that being able to speak a foreign language can make people&#8217;s brains more efficient and adaptable.<BR><br \/>\nIf the brain reduces in size due to the degenerative condition &#8211; which causes a decline in thinking, memory, and reasoning skills &#8211; it can find different ways to gain the same information.<BR><br \/>\nThe MRI Imaging research showed if someone has a bigger brain reserve, it can cause more damage before reaching the point at which dementia is triggered.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers believe the change between the native and learned languages can improve the strength of the brain&#8217;s executive functions, which cause people to make decisions, plan things and pay attention.<BR><br \/>\nEllen Bialystok, from York University in Toronto, is quoted by New Scientist as saying: &#8220;It doesn\u2019t prevent dementia, it holds back the flood.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;When bilingual people eventually show cognitive problems, they decline faster, but it starts later. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Imagine what families could do with that extra time.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-24 12:53:26 Learning a second language can help reduce the risk of getting dementia. Natalie Phillips, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, told New Scientist that being bilingual makes the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}