Friday, December 02, 2005

Perk up that memory with some caffeine

Perk up that memory with some caffeine: "It seems brain scans confirm what coffee drinkers already know - that caffeine gives the brain a boost. Austrian researchers say the scans show that caffeine found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate stimulates areas of the brain governing short-term memory and attention. Apparently functional magnetic resonance imaging scans performed on the brains of 15 subjects who had just consumed caffeine equal to that found in two cups of coffee, showed increased activity in the frontal lobe where the working memory is located, and in the anterior cingulum that controls attention." I think I'm going to up my caffeine intake.

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