CAN DRINKING A MORNING COFFEE BOAST YOUR MEMORY?
A new study suggests caffeine might do more for the brain than boost alertness — it may help memory too.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University looked at caffeine’s impact on memory while excluding its other brainenhancing factors. The study showed that caffeine enhances certain memories for up to 24 hours after it’s consumed.
“The finding that caffeine has an effect on this process in humans — the process of making memories more permanent, less forgettable — was one of the big novelties,” said study author Michael Yassa, an assistant professor of neurobiology and behaviour at the University of California, Irvine, who conducted the research while at Johns Hopkins.
