I am a 78-year-old semi-retired family physician, and a few years ago, I was diagnosed with MCI at MGH. I upgraded my diet and exercise daily, and I also challenge my brain. My last cognitive function test was normal. That's good, because I'm raising a wonderful 12-year-old daughter.
That's great! We are seeing many people able to improve their cognition from the MCI range to the normal range with lifestyle interventions. It's very hopeful to hear your story.
Very interesting! Keen to compare the impact of learning a new language as an adult with learning a new instrument or game (i.e. chess).
Also, curious if there are studies done on trilingual people too. A while ago, I remember reading and noting a study: "progressing from 2 to 3 languages was associated with 7-fold protection against cognitive impairment without dementia." But I consistently see that multi-lingual people love learning new languages. I'm in that category - naturally interested in picking up a new language and mimicking accents. So, I've always wondered if we just find hobbies that we are already good at, and by practising, we become even better at those things (stretch the same parts of our brains), and there is positive reinforcement going on.
being bilingual, from a young age, presents a scenario where (1) two distinct sets of engrams must be "cognitively separated", decoded and reconstructed. (suppress the non target set). vs. (2) there is one shared set of engrams that must be decoded via two distinct phonological mappings (Kroll and Stewart)
the reason I ask is because I'd like to play with cognitive load/shedding/prediction/dmn, is one more defensible in this context?
I enjoyed the findings of the military interpreter study, the plasticity play was clean and makes sense, but as a separate question, I wonder if the architecture is closer to 1, 2 or other?
I am a 78-year-old semi-retired family physician, and a few years ago, I was diagnosed with MCI at MGH. I upgraded my diet and exercise daily, and I also challenge my brain. My last cognitive function test was normal. That's good, because I'm raising a wonderful 12-year-old daughter.
That's great! We are seeing many people able to improve their cognition from the MCI range to the normal range with lifestyle interventions. It's very hopeful to hear your story.
Very interesting! Keen to compare the impact of learning a new language as an adult with learning a new instrument or game (i.e. chess).
Also, curious if there are studies done on trilingual people too. A while ago, I remember reading and noting a study: "progressing from 2 to 3 languages was associated with 7-fold protection against cognitive impairment without dementia." But I consistently see that multi-lingual people love learning new languages. I'm in that category - naturally interested in picking up a new language and mimicking accents. So, I've always wondered if we just find hobbies that we are already good at, and by practising, we become even better at those things (stretch the same parts of our brains), and there is positive reinforcement going on.
nicely presented!
how would we draw up the following?
being bilingual, from a young age, presents a scenario where (1) two distinct sets of engrams must be "cognitively separated", decoded and reconstructed. (suppress the non target set). vs. (2) there is one shared set of engrams that must be decoded via two distinct phonological mappings (Kroll and Stewart)
the reason I ask is because I'd like to play with cognitive load/shedding/prediction/dmn, is one more defensible in this context?
I enjoyed the findings of the military interpreter study, the plasticity play was clean and makes sense, but as a separate question, I wonder if the architecture is closer to 1, 2 or other?
thank you