Showing posts with label hippocampus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hippocampus. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Caffeine can prevent memory loss in diabetes


Caffeine can prevent memory loss in diabetes: Badly controlled diabetes are known to affect the brain causing memory and learning problems and even increased incidence of dementia, although how this occurs is not clear. But now a study in mice with type 2 diabetes has discovered how diabetes affects a brain area called hippocampus causing memory loss, and also how caffeine can prevent this.