A new study by the Moorfields Eye Hospital has found that learning a second language can help decrease involuntary blinking in patients suffering from benign essential blepharospasm (BEB).
The study — which was recently published in the journal Movement Disorders — is reportedly based on a study that found symptoms in two BEB patients reduced significantly when they spoke in a language that was not native to them. Researchers are not clear as to the correlation between BEB symptoms and learning a second language, but they believe it may be related to changing brain pathways or using higher levels of brain function.
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Source: Moorfields Eye Hospital