Alzheimer's drug boosts perceptual learning in healthy adults

Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 08:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists have found that healthy adults showed greater improvement from practice on a motion direction discrimination task when they took donepezil, a commonly prescribed Alzheimer's drug, compared with when they took a placebo. The research is helping neuroscientists better understand perceptual learning in healthy adults.

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