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"Calling all caffeine lovers! If you&amp;#x27;re a fan of a daily injection of coffee, this may be news you can use.... A new study in Nature Neuroscience found that drinking 200 milligrams of caffeine (about the size of a &amp;quot;tall&amp;quot; cup at Starbucks, or two smaller cups) might boost your ability to remember subtle details. Researchers had participants (who didn&amp;#x27;t regularly drink caffeine) memorize a series of pictures. After committing the pics to memory, they were given either a caffeine pill or a placebo pill. A day later&amp;amp;#8212;after the caffeine had left their systems&amp;amp;#8212;the subjects had to pick out pictures that were different from the ones they&amp;#x27;d seen the day before. Some of the photos looked similar to the ones they&amp;#x27;d had to look at previously, but they weren&amp;#x27;t the same&amp;amp;#8212;so subjects had to seriously draw on their memory banks to remember if they all matched up. The results: Those who had ingested caffeine were much better at recognizing the new photos. According to study author Michael Yassa (by way of Forbes): &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ve always known that caffeine has cognitive-enhancing effects, but its particular effects on strengthening memories and making them resistant to forgetting has never been examined in detail in humans. We report for the first time a specific effect of caffeine on reducing forgetting over 24 hours.&amp;quot; And! Because subjects had caffeine after they needed to perform the memory test meant that other influences of caffeine&amp;amp;#8212;anxiety, energy, attention&amp;amp;#8212;were eliminated. Researchers are still looking into why this might be the case (the study&amp;#x27;s authors say that some caffeine may correlate with possible protection against things like Alzheimer&amp;amp;#8217;s disease) but say that higher doses of java didn&amp;#x27;t offer results that were similar to the 200mg dose. Hmm! What do you think? And how much coffee (or other caffeinated beverages) do you have a day?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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