Coffee may hold key to jolting memory in old age

JOHN VON RADOWITZ

COFFEE may help to prevent memory loss in old age, claim scientists, who have discovered that caffeine alters electrical activity in the brain.

Boosting gamma rhythms, produced by the synchronised firing of nerve cells 40 times a second, aids memory and learning. It involves a brain chemical called adenosine - present in especially high levels in the elderly.

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