老年痴呆又称失智症,是困扰许多老年人的一种疾病,目前还没有十分有效的治疗方法。不过,英同爱丁堡大学的研究人员与印度的科研人员一起,为我们找到了一种可延缓老年痴呆发生的有效方法:就是学习母语以外的一种或几种其他语言。研究人员在印度找到648名老年痴呆患者,平均年龄是66岁,其中有391人至少会说两种语言,其他人只会说一种语言。调查结果发现,双语病人患痴呆的年龄比单讲病人晚4~5年。研究人员解释说,学习讯,言是对大脑最有有效的训练方式,在学习新语言时,犬脑会被迫处理 Alzheimer’s disease, also known as dementia, is a disorder that plagues many elderly people and there is currently no very effective treatment. However, researchers at the University of Edinburgh, together with Indian researchers, have found an effective way to defer the onset of dementia: learning one or more other languages ​​besides your mother tongue. Researchers found 648 people with Alzheimer’s disease in India, with an average age of 66, of whom 391 speak at least two languages ​​while others speak only one language. The findings found that bilingual patients with dementia than the single-patient patients aged 4 to 5 years later. The researchers explained that learning hearing, speech is the most effective training of the brain, learning a new language, the dog’s brain will be forced to deal with