Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice

Monday, July 6, 2009 - 05:14 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.

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