Neurobiologists from across the country have discovered that students who are fluent in at least two languages are better at multitasking and less likely to face an early onset of Alzheimer's disease. The findings were presented at a conference in Washington, D.C., last month. "A lot of brain imaging scans have shown that being bilingual has changed the structure of the brain," said Lauren Mason Carris, a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics at UCLA. Read more...

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Second-year neuroscience student Yuta Ebikawa speaks both English and Japanese. A recent study found bilingual people are better able to multitask and are less likely to show early signs of Alzheimer’s.