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Bilingualism and sex hormones may provide a new link to brain resilience and dementia risk

The Conversation · · 789 words · By Noelia Calvo

The article discusses a research study on how the interaction of bilingualism, verbal memory, and sex hormones influences cognitive resilience and dementia risk in older Canadians. The findings suggest that bilingual men may exhibit greater brain protection due to the synergy between language experience and the aromatization of testosterone into estradiol.

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“The most recent census in 2021 indicated that one in eight Canadians is aged 70 or over”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions and general Wikipedia entries about Canada, but no specific census data regarding the age of Canadians.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — East Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to East Asia. East Asian Canadians are also a subgroup of Asian Canadians. According to Statistics Canada, East A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Southeast Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asia. The term Southeast Asian Canadian is a subgroup of Asian Canadians. According to Statisti…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest coun…
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“there are 1.7 million who are age 80 or older”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Black Canadians (French: Canadiens Noirs) are citizens of Canada who have ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa. The Canadian-born (41.0%) were the largest Black population group in C…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French colonists first arriving in France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast major…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indian Canadians (or Indo-Canadians) are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The term East Indian is sometimes used to avoid confusion with Indigenous groups. Categorically, Indian Canadians compr…
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“the 2021 census indicated that bilingualism is also increasing among Canadians, with four in 10 (41 per cent) speaking more than one language”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It recorded a total national population of 36,991,981 – a 5.2% increase over the f…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20, 2021, to elect members of the House of Commons to the 44th Canadian Parliament. The writs of election were issued by Governor General Mary …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are col…
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“Our study included data from 335 older adults with mild cognitive impairment and 170 patients with Alzheimer’s disease drawn from the Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPASS-ND) cohort”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The year 2011 involved many significant scientific events, including the first artificial organ transplant, the launch of China's first space station and the growth of the world population to seven bi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain con…
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web search NEUTRAL — Our study included data from 335 older adults with mild cognitive impairment and 170 patients with Alzheimer’s disease drawn from the Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPAS…
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“COMPASS-ND includes more than 1,200 Canadian adults aged 50–90 years recruited across more than 30 sites nationwide”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Alerus Center is an indoor arena and convention center in the north central United States, located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The facility is owned and operated by the city of Grand Forks and o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On the British ocean liner RMS Titanic, the navigation bridge (or command bridge) was a superstructure where the ship's command was exercised. From this location, the officer of the watch determined t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wayne Marsden Brittenden is a New Zealand journalist, author, historian, and documentary filmmaker. He has worked as a political journalist for the BBC, a correspondent for Radio New Zealand, and a co…
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“Each unit increase in the resilience index was associated with a significant reduction in the odds of dementia-related pathology”
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web search NEUTRAL — meta-analysis of 57 studies published in The Lancet Public Health.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2…
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web search NEUTRAL — Objective To investigate the association between long term residential exposure to road traffic and railway noise and risk of incident dementia. Design Nationwide prospective register based cohort stu…
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web search NEUTRAL — The authors of the study performed two investigations involving over 3,000 participants. The first analyzed data from people participating in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), an ongoi…
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“Higher resilience index scores were also linked to better performance on clinical diagnostic tools such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)”
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web search NEUTRAL — The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a widely used screening assessment for detecting cognitive impairment. It was created in 1996 by Ziad Nasreddine in Montreal, Quebec.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a cognitive screening tool that assesses various cognitive domains, including attention, memory, language, visuospatial abilities, and executive functions. …
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web search NEUTRAL — Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): Scoring, Domains & Use. What is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment? Learn MoCA domains, how scoring works, what scores mean, who administers it, and how to prepare…
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“Higher resilience index scores were also linked to... lower levels of key markers associated with neurodegeneration and glial activation”
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web search NEUTRAL — Overall, bilingual participants showed the highest resilience index scores, but with notable differences in how these effects manifested across biological sex. Our findings challenge the idea that ris…
https://theconversation.com/bilingualism-and-sex-hormones-ma…
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web search NEUTRAL — Higher blood NfL levels in centenarians correlated with lower cognitive scores and increased mortality rates. NfL may reflect complex systemic interactions that influence mortality, researchers sugges…
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/dementia/121162
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web search NEUTRAL — Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration markers. Neurogenesis is a turnover process that generates new neurons during adulthood, maintaining the integrity of the brain.
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“Overall, bilingual participants showed the highest resilience index scores”
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“women showed better performance in verbal memory”
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“bilingual men showed greater brain protection”
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