{"id":93950,"date":"2019-07-20T12:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/can-learning-a-foreign-language-prevent-dementia"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:42:50","slug":"can-learning-a-foreign-language-prevent-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/can-learning-a-foreign-language-prevent-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Can Learning a Foreign Language Prevent Dementia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-learning-a-foreign-language-prevent-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.<\/p>\n<p>By: richard roberts and roger kreuz <\/p>\n<p>You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most common forms is Alzheimer\u2019s disease. At this time, the causes of the disease are not well understood, and consequently, there are no proven steps that people can take to prevent it. Nonetheless, some researchers have suggested that learning a foreign language might help delay the onset of dementia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe. By: richard roberts and roger kreuz You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most common [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}