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I heard that several studies (e.g. 1, 2) point out that learning several languages help with averting dementia and Alzheimer's disease, especially when the languages are learned at a young age and when the languages are used often.

However, the studies that I can find only point at numerical evidence. I am wondering whether it is known what happens in the brain when learning and using multiple languages that delays dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Tsundoku
  • 19,740
  • 4
  • 43
  • 120
wythagoras
  • 1,861
  • 10
  • 34
  • 8
    Great question and a fascinating topic, but I believe this crosses into off topic territory for *this* site. I think it's neat that learning a language might be found to help dementia patents, but the neuroscience of dementia is a subject of cognitive sciences or possibly Health. This question doesn't really deal with expertise or learning techniques of language acquisition as intended by this site. Sorry about the confusion. – Robert Cartaino Apr 25 '16 at 21:11
  • If you ask the question like "how disease X affects learning language?", then I think it will be on-topic again – Ooker Jun 16 '16 at 06:09

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