{"id":1504,"date":"2010-11-09T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2010-11-09T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:08:16","slug":"language-could-help-delay-alzheimers-onset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/medicine\/language-could-help-delay-alzheimers-onset\/","title":{"rendered":"Language could help delay Alzheimer&#8217;s onset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1505\" title=\"mature_alzheimers\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mature_alzheimers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mature_alzheimers.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mature_alzheimers-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mature_alzheimers-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Speaking two or more languages could help delay symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s by up to five years, Canadian researchers have found. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\" http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-11-bilingualism-onset-alzheimer-symptoms.html\" target=\"blank\">study<\/a> first published in the journal <em>Neurology<\/em> compared Alzheimer&#8217;s patients who are bilingual to those who speak only one language. Both groups demonstrated signs of cognitive deterioration consistent with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, however those with a second language ability took up to five years longer to develop symptoms such as memory loss, confusion and difficulties with problem-solving and planning.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Rotman Research Institute, who conducted the study, believe a second language could equip patients with important compensatory skills that can help keep cognitive loss at bay.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\" http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-11-bilingualism-onset-alzheimer-symptoms.html\" target=\"blank\">PhysOrg<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking two or more languages could help delay symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s by up to five years, Canadian researchers have found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-medicine","category-news","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}