What are advantages and disadvantages of being multilingual for our brain?

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Advantages of being multilingual for our brain:
1. It helps in better development of brain's multifactorial executive control system.
2. Multilinguals have better memory and efficiency in monitoring systems than monolinguals.
3. It helps in better functioning of cortical and subcortical structures of brain.
4. In elderly people, problems like dementia arises. Multilingualism can delay the onset of such symptoms by 5-years.

Disadvantages of being multilingual for the brain are not known.

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