Bilingualism: Alzheimer's and Dementia Prevention

Feliz lunes, BABELers! 🧠 Today, we dive into the positive role that bilingualism can have in off-setting the effects of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Our recent BABEL Lab graduate 👩🏽‍🎓 @imeonlimon highlights the important ways that bilingualism might delay the effects of each of dementia and Alzheimer’s based on the study by Cherktow and colleagues (2010).

Isn’t it great that research has found that our brains benefit from knowing a second, third, fourth, or fifth language?! 🤩

How many do you know? Any questions? Drop them in the comments below 👇🏽

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