Brain Love, Do not Just Can a Language

Toronto, not only make it easier to communicate with many people, have the ability to speak more than one language can also sharpen the brain even delaying senility later. Pity your brain by mastering many languages, or at least two languages ​​(bilingual).
Dr Ellen Bialystok, a scientist Cognitive Neurology and Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, has spent nearly 40 years to learn how to sharpen the ability of many languages ​​of the brain.
"The ability of language bilingualism can make the cognitive system has the ability to deliver important information and ignore the less important. It affects the part of the brain that govern executive control system," explained Dr Ellen Bialystok, as reported by the NYTimes, on Wednesday (06/01/2011).
According to Dr. Bialystok, executive control system of the brain is the general manager whose task is to make people stay focused on things that are relevant and ignore the disturbances that are not important.
"This allows for you to hold two different things in mind and one time," said Dr. Bialystok.
If you have the ability of two or more languages ​​are used regularly, added Dr. Bialystok, the brain will work to create a network each time you speak, whether on the part of the brain that govern language skills and also in parts of the brain that govern executive control system.
"Therefore, people who have the ability to speak more than 1 language will use more brain systems (compared to the brain that controls only one language). And when language skills are used regularly it will make the brain work more efficiently," said Dr. Bialystok.
In addition to sharpen the brain, on both the research of Dr. Bialystok found it surprising that control more than one language can help prevent the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease or memory loss diseases.
The delay effect is observed on a number of people with Alzheimer's disease, one cause of senile cognitive disorders in the elderly. Although both diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the elderly who account for more than a new language to feel the symptoms several years later.
The symptoms that accompany dementia or Alzheimer's include forgetfulness, easily confused and have difficulty solving problems or planning something. Although in the end equally inevitable, but in the first few years of the brain can compensate so that the symptoms did not appear.
Compensation was not found in the elderly who spoke daily with only 1 kind of language. As a result the time of diagnosis of Alzheimer's, not how long the elderly then it will show symptoms of dementia and cognitive function decline.