Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
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Re: Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
#2Abstract of referenced journal article
Background and Purpose—Bilingualism has been associated with slower cognitive aging and a later onset of dementia. In this study, we aimed to determine whether bilingualism also influences cognitive outcome after stroke.
Methods—We examined 608 patients with ischemic stroke from a large stroke registry and studied the role of bilingualism in predicting poststroke cognitive impairment in the absence of dementia.
Results—A larger proportion of bilinguals had normal cognition compared with monolinguals (40.5% versus 19.6%; PConclusions—Our results suggest that bilingualism leads to a better cognitive outcome after stroke, possibly by enhancing cognitive reserve. (Stroke. 2016;47:00-00. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.010418.) Key Words: aphasia ◼ dementia, vascular ◼ language ◼ risk factors ◼ stroke
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/early/2015/11/19/STROK...
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Re: Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
#3great, I know both HTML and CSS, and some javascript.
seriously though, I think it would also apply to programmers using both functional and procedural languages.
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#4This switching offers practically constant brain training which may be a factor in helping stroke patients recover.
Another hypothesis would be that being in better neural shape to being with allowed them to become bilingual. Can someone... obtain the full pdf? Do the authors try to control this factor?
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#5This switching offers practically constant brain training which may be a factor in helping stroke patients recover. Another hypothesis would be that being in better neural shape to being with allowed them to become bilingual. Can someone... obtain the full pdf? Do the authors try to control this factor?
I'd wager most bilinguals are so not because they thought it would be a cool self-improvement project. I speak English because all the good movies are made in the US, and German because I live in Germany, and Swedish because that is what my mother and father spoke to me.
Re: Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
#6This switching offers practically constant brain training which may be a factor in helping stroke patients recover. Another hypothesis would be that being in better neural shape to being with allowed them to become bilingual. Can someone... obtain the full pdf? Do the authors try to control this factor?
I think the PDF is open access? [0] Of course it is hard to control for 'neural shape', but they seem to control for both education and occupational status, which seem like pretty decent proxies to me.
[0] http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/early/2015/11/19/STROK...
Re: Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
#7great, I know both HTML and CSS, and some javascript. seriously though, I think it would also apply to programmers using both functional and procedural languages.
I think most programmers can learn a new programming language to reasonable "fluency" in a few weeks, for natural languages it's more like a few years. Totally different except when you think of formal terms like vocabulary, syntax etc. which can be found in both and may have led to the term "programming language".
Re: Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
#8This switching offers practically constant brain training which may be a factor in helping stroke patients recover. Another hypothesis would be that being in better neural shape to being with allowed them to become bilingual. Can someone... obtain the full pdf? Do the authors try to control this factor?
I'd wager most bilinguals are so not because they thought it would be a cool self-improvement project. I speak English because all the good movies are made in the US, and German because I live in Germany, and Swedish because that is what my mother and father spoke to me.
I would support your statement as well. I know three languages: one as my native language, other as my country's only official language, and the last one (English) is my general purpose language, meaning I use at to surf web, to study books, to watch films/series, to code, etc..
Would I learn any other language if I would be born in English society and English family? Doubt it. Maybe some other mainstream language just for fun, but it wouldn't count as bilingual as I wouldn't push myself hard enough to learn it.
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#9This switching offers practically constant brain training which may be a factor in helping stroke patients recover. Another hypothesis would be that being in better neural shape to being with allowed them to become bilingual. Can someone... obtain the full pdf? Do the authors try to control this factor?
I'd wager most bilinguals are so not because they thought it would be a cool self-improvement project. I speak English because all the good movies are made in the US, and German because I live in Germany, and Swedish because that is what my mother and father spoke to me.
There are however plenty of Germans who are not fluent in English despite having access to all the same cool American movies as you did.
Re: Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd wager most bilinguals are so not because they thought it would be a cool self-improvement project. I speak English because all the good movies are made in the US, and German because I live in Germany, and Swedish because that is what my mother and father spoke to me.
There are however plenty of Germans who are not fluent in English despite having access to all the same cool American movies as you did.
Movies in Germany are dubbed. (I imagine that GP is from Sweden and probably moved to Germany, given that's the language of his/her parents)