Caffeine May Prevent Memory Loss In Diabetes
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 16:40
in Health & Medicine
Badly controlled diabetes are known to affect the brain, causing memory and learning problems and even increased incidence of dementia. How this occurs is not clear but a study in mice with type 2 diabetes has discovered how diabetes affects the hippocampus, causing memory loss, and also how caffeine can prevent this. Curiously, the neurodegeneration that Rodrigo Cunha, from the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, sees as result of diabetes is the same that occurs at the first stages of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, suggesting that caffeine (or drugs with similar mechanisms) could help them too. read more