Bilingualism offers more than just the ability to navigate multiple languages—it also has a profound impact on brain health. Research has increasingly shown that speaking more than one language can ...

Medical advances are causing a gradual increase in average life expectancy. However, this comes at a price, as the number of cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases grows with age.

A new study found that bilingualism- especially from a younger age- is linked to more efficient brain connectivity. The study improves our understanding of how bilingualism influences the brain. The ...

Bilingualism has long been known to have cognitive benefits for older adults. Research shows it helping delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease by up to five years compared to monolingual adults. This ...

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to build connections within itself, adapting to the surrounding environment. The brain is most plastic in childhood, forming new pathways in reaction to stimuli ...

Shortly after Kathy Jones relocated to California, the retired professor decided she needed to learn to speak Spanish. "When I moved to San Diego, I would see all these young kids, mostly Latino kids, ...

(OR Images/DigitalVision/Getty Images) A new study shows that mothers and their children display synchronized neural activity ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Learning a second language benefits the brain in ways that can pay off later in life, suggests a ...

Schizophrenia risk may reflect two brain pathways with different cortical and subcortical balance. Early language learning relies more on subcortical systems; later learning engages cortical control.

If things work out as hoped, brain implants will ultimately restore communication for those who have become paralyzed due to injury or disease. But we’re a long way from that future, and the implants ...

The brain uses a shared mechanism for combining words from a single language and for combining words from two different languages, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. Its findings indicate that ...