Arun Noranarith conducted a study to test the effects of caffeine consumption on motor skills using the mobile game White Tiles. Over 4 weeks, he measured his average scores on White Tiles without coffee (week 1), with increased coffee of 16oz per day (week 2), decreased coffee of 8oz per day (week 3), and without coffee again (week 4). He hypothesized that increased caffeine would decrease his motor skills and scores in the game. The results showed declines in his average scores during the weeks with increased and decreased caffeine consumption compared to the non-caffeinated weeks.
Why Does Coffee Improve Memory?
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1779/why-does-coffee-improve-memory/
Everyone knows that coffee help us wake up in the morning and keeping during a long day. What is also the case is that coffee can help your memory. The easy part is that if you are more awake you will pay attention better and are more likely to remember things. But, does coffee help long term memory? Medical News Today comments on coffee and women’s risk of dementia.
Researchers have long suggested that caffeine - a mild stimulant present in coffee, tea, and cola - has cognitive benefits.
A study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2014, for example, identified a link between coffee intake and improved long-term memory.
The new findings - recently published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences - offer further evidence of caffeine's brain benefits, after finding the stimulant may help to stave off cognitive decline in later life.
Here is the older study first of all. The quoted article is from Nature Neuroscience, 17, 201-203 (2014) and is titled Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans.
It is currently not known whether caffeine has an enhancing effect on long-term memory in humans. We used post-study caffeine administration to test its effect on memory consolidation using a behavioral discrimination task. Caffeine enhanced performance 24 h after administration according to an inverted U-shaped dose-response curve; this effect was specific to consolidation and not retrieval. We conclude that caffeine enhanced consolidation of long-term memories in humans.
So, there is measurable proof that long term memory is improved with coffee. What the later study reported in MNT shows is that long term coffee consumption is associated with a reduced risk of dementia.
Shudh (natural internal cleanse): Shudh is a modern version of Shankhaprakshalana, an indian purification technique that has been used for over a 2,500 years. This technique cleanses the bowel naturally, using only salted water and a series of five yoga exercises.
Instead of chemical action, the body's own reflexes do the work. The Shudh process is ideal for healthy men and women who are fit enough to do little exercise.
Poster presentation at the 2015 Ouachita Baptist University Scholar's Day displaying the results of my research project about the effects of caffeine on muscular endurance.
Final presentation for MUIC's Scientific Research and Presentation course on the evaluation of some available studies on the correlation between coffee consumption and the prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
Why Does Coffee Improve Memory?
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1779/why-does-coffee-improve-memory/
Everyone knows that coffee help us wake up in the morning and keeping during a long day. What is also the case is that coffee can help your memory. The easy part is that if you are more awake you will pay attention better and are more likely to remember things. But, does coffee help long term memory? Medical News Today comments on coffee and women’s risk of dementia.
Researchers have long suggested that caffeine - a mild stimulant present in coffee, tea, and cola - has cognitive benefits.
A study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2014, for example, identified a link between coffee intake and improved long-term memory.
The new findings - recently published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences - offer further evidence of caffeine's brain benefits, after finding the stimulant may help to stave off cognitive decline in later life.
Here is the older study first of all. The quoted article is from Nature Neuroscience, 17, 201-203 (2014) and is titled Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans.
It is currently not known whether caffeine has an enhancing effect on long-term memory in humans. We used post-study caffeine administration to test its effect on memory consolidation using a behavioral discrimination task. Caffeine enhanced performance 24 h after administration according to an inverted U-shaped dose-response curve; this effect was specific to consolidation and not retrieval. We conclude that caffeine enhanced consolidation of long-term memories in humans.
So, there is measurable proof that long term memory is improved with coffee. What the later study reported in MNT shows is that long term coffee consumption is associated with a reduced risk of dementia.
Shudh (natural internal cleanse): Shudh is a modern version of Shankhaprakshalana, an indian purification technique that has been used for over a 2,500 years. This technique cleanses the bowel naturally, using only salted water and a series of five yoga exercises.
Instead of chemical action, the body's own reflexes do the work. The Shudh process is ideal for healthy men and women who are fit enough to do little exercise.
Poster presentation at the 2015 Ouachita Baptist University Scholar's Day displaying the results of my research project about the effects of caffeine on muscular endurance.
Final presentation for MUIC's Scientific Research and Presentation course on the evaluation of some available studies on the correlation between coffee consumption and the prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
1. Arun Noranarith Brain Experiment Research
BIO 310 10/12/2014
1. Background:
Previous studies testing the effects of caffeine on motor performance have suggested a significant impairment in
motor skills. A study performed by the University of California, gave one group of caffeinated and one group of non-
caffeinated adult individuals a finger tapping motor task, where test subjects where required to repeatedly complete a
sequence of 4-1-3-2-4 ona keyboard. Measured by the number of correct sequences and accuracy, results showed
that the caffeinated group experienced a decrease in both score and accuracy (Mednick et al. 2009). Another study
performed by Trondheim University Hospital in Ostmarka, Norway performed a similar test, where two groups of
caffeinated and non-caffeinated adults where given a maze coordination test. Results showed a decline motor
steadiness for the caffeinated group (Bovim et al 2008).
As part of the 90% of North Americans that drink caffeinated beverages (Mednick et al. 2009), I would be
interested to see how drinking coffee affects my motor skills. For the past month, I have stopped drinking coffee, and
am curious to see quantitatively how my brain function is altered with and without caffeinated coffee.
Available on tablets and smart phones, White Titles is a simple arcade game that requires motor skills. The goal
of the game is to tap as many black tiles to avoid white tiles, and the higher number of black tiles tapped on the
higher the score. Before this experiment, I have only heard of the game by word of mouth.
2. Hypothesis:
Consuming an increased amount of caffeinated coffee will alter my brain function by reducing my motor skills and
decreasing my scores and accuracy in White Tiles.
3. Methods:
a. Initial Brain Assessment:
i. Week 1: play White Tiles (5 trials) and record average score for each day without drinking
coffee.
b. Experiment:
i. Week 2: increase coffee consumption to at least 16oz and play White Tiles (5 trials). Record
average score for each day after drinking caffeinated coffee each morning.
c. Experiment variant:
i. Week 3: decrease coffee consumption to less than 8oz and play White Tiles (5 trials). Record
average score for each day after drinking coffee.
d. Final Brain Assessment:
i. Week 4: play White Tiles after returning to normal routine of not drinking coffee. Record
average score.
4. Length of experiment: total of 4 weeks
a. Week 1:
i. No coffee; baseline to compare with experiment
b. Week 2:
i. increasing coffee consumption by 16oz
c. Week 3:
i. decreasing coffee consumption by 8oz
d. Week 4:
i. returning to normal routine
5. Example of data collection table (1st week):
3. Arun Noranarith Brain Experiment Research
BIO 310 10/12/2014
Mednick, S. C., Denise J. C., Kanady J., and Drummond, S. (2009). Comparing the benefits of caffeine, naps and
placebo on verbal, motor and perceptual memory. National Institute of Health Public Access. doi:
10.1016/j.bbr.2008.04.028