Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice
Monday, July 6, 2009 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup. When aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were given caffeine – the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day – their memory impairment was reversed, report University of South Florida researchers at the Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.