What happens in your brain when you learn a second language? :)

Well, i just have had read an article on "muyinteresante.com" about the advantages of learning a second lenguage and how your brain changes and I want to share this. For me, that was amazing. Romero (author of the article) said that the psychology school of Kent (UK) has conducted a study of 3 groups of volunteers (1 group of bilingual people, 1 group of not bilingual but knowing of two languages and 1 group of monolingual people). The first 2 groups had the same degree of myelination of axons, which means a better integrity in the white matter of the brain, providing greater efficiency in the transmission of information or knowledge. These findings weren't repeated in the group of monolingual people. That's amazing!! But even more amazing is this another notice that(in the same article), this these results can be there remain, even into adulthood without a permanent use of the new language. So, learning another language from an early age and old age whether early in life or later on, provides the same structural changes in the white matter of the brain!

Imagine how helpfull  helpful could this be  this could be for all of those old people that doesn't wanna  who don't want to lose their superior functions, they can do this and retard problems like multiple sclerosis or cognitive impairment by age (i mean, not like rehab or a cure for those problems actually, but this could help them, as far as I can see)

And well, you know what they say, If you don't use it, you lose it. :)