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Caffeine May Prevent Memory Damage

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TEMPO Interactive, Lisbon - Potential benefits of caffeine for the maintenance of brain function adequately now beginning to be appreciated. In epidemiological studies with animals as a model to show that caffeine can protect against cognitive decline in those affected by dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The results of this study, which presents some key findings, published in special supplements the journal Alzheimer's Disease, recently. Guest editor, Alexandre de Mendonca, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Rodrigo A. Cunha, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal, assembled a group of international experts to explore the effects of caffeine on the brain.

Results of collecting a number of studies show a variety of perspectives ranging from molecular targets of caffeine, modifications and adaptations neurofisiologis, until the potential mechanisms underlying the behavior and actions neuroprotektif caffeine in different brain pathologies.

"The first epidemiological study revealed an inverse relationship between chronic caffeine consumption and incidence of Parkinson's disease," said Mendonca and Cunha. According to them, it is parallel with the study in animals with Parkinson's disease which showed that caffeine prevented the motor deficits and nerve degeneration. Subsequent epidemiological studies indicate that moderate amounts of caffeine consumption was inversely associated with cognitive decline with aging and Alzheimer's disease. "Again, this was paralleled by animal studies showing that chronic caffeine intake to prevent degeneration of nerve damage and memory in animal models of aging and Alzheimer's disease," they said.


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