Caffeine can prevent memory loss in diabetes
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
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.