{"id":4941,"date":"2024-10-28T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:17:07","slug":"bilingualism-may-maintain-protection-against-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/bilingualism-may-maintain-protection-against-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingualism may maintain protection against Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Neuroimaging reveals larger, healthier hippocampi in patients who speak two languages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new study published in the journal\u00a0<em>Bilingualism: Language and Cognition<\/em>, Concordia researchers use neuroimaging methods to examine brain resilience in regions of the brain linked to language and aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They found that the hippocampus in bilinguals with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease was noticeably larger than those who were monolingual when matched for age, education, cognitive function and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abThere was greater brain matter in the hippocampus, which is the main region in the brain for learning and memory and is highly affected by Alzheimer&#8217;s,\u00bb says the study&#8217;s lead author, PhD candidate Kristina Coulter. She co-wrote&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2024\/10\/241022154131.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Neuroimaging reveals larger, healthier hippocampi in patients who speak two languages In a new study published in the journal\u00a0Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Concordia researchers use <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/bilingualism-may-maintain-protection-against-alzheimers\/\" title=\"Bilingualism may maintain protection against Alzheimer&#8217;s\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[463,462],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-3-articulos","tag-alzheimers","tag-bilingualism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}