Month: January 2013

Speak more than one language: do ’ shield ’ against Alzheimer’s? -Basque Research Center BCBL needed the participation of hundreds of people over age 65, both bilingual and monolingual, to investigate if bilingualism protect against neurodegenerative diseases -Research, based on neuroimaging tests, intended to contrast earlier studies suggesting that bilingual older people can be better protected than the monolingual Spain, January 2013.- several international studies on the behavior of the human brain have carried first-class neuroscientists consider that bilingualism can protect the brain of older persons from various degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Although neuroscience has begun to study the relationship between bilingualism and Neurodegeneration ago just 5 years, the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) seeks to exploit the knowledge accumulated in its four years of existence and its location in a bilingual environment such as the Basque country to launch an ambitious study that throw more light on this topic. For this purpose, needs the participation of hundreds of people over age 65, both bilingual and monolingual, to start the investigation at its facilities in San Sebastian. The hypothesis that establish a relationship between bilingualism and neurodegenerative diseases are based on a series of recent works in charge of renowned neuroscientists, as Canadian Ellen Bialystok, whose findings suggest possible both functional and structural differences between the monolingual and multilingual persons. Mainly, these findings suggest...