Research suggests that coffee consumption enhances long-term memory and may reduce the risk of dementia, particularly in women. A study showed that women consuming more than 261 milligrams of caffeine daily had a 36% lower risk of probable dementia compared to those with lower consumption. The cognitive benefits of caffeine are thought to be linked to its action on adenosine receptors, helping to mitigate age-related cognitive decline.

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2. Everyone knows that coffee help us wake up
in the morning and keeping during a long
day.

3. What is also the case is that coffee can help
your memory.

4. The easy part is that if you are more awake
you will pay attention better and are more
likely to remember things.

5. But, does coffee help long term memory?

6. Medical News Today comments on coffee
and women’s risk of dementia.

7. Researchers have long suggested that
caffeine - a mild stimulant present in coffee,
tea, and cola - has cognitive benefits.

8. A study published in the journal Nature
Neuroscience in 2014, for example,
identified a link between coffee intake and
improved long-term memory.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. It is currently not known whether caffeine
has an enhancing effect on long-term
memory in humans.

12. 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;

13. this effect was specific to consolidation and
not retrieval. We conclude that caffeine
enhanced consolidation of long-term
memories in humans.

14. So, there is measurable proof that long term
memory is improved with coffee.

15. What the later study reported in MNT shows
is that long term coffee consumption is
associated with a reduced risk of dementia.

16. During up to 10 years of follow-up, all
subjects underwent annual cognitive
assessments, which the researchers
analyzed to pinpoint a diagnosis of probable
dementia or other forms of cognitive
impairment. A total of 388 women received
such diagnoses.

17. Compared with women who consumed a
low amount of caffeine (defined in the study
as less than 64 milligrams daily), those who
consumed a higher amount (more than 261
milligrams daily) were found to be at 36
percent reduced risk of a diagnosis of
probable dementia or cognitive impairment.

18. The researchers note that 261 milligrams of
caffeine is the equivalent of two to three 8-
ounce cups of coffee daily, or five to six 8-
ounce cups of black tea.

19. Why does coffee improve memory? When
asked by this seems to work the lead
researcher talked about possible underlying
mechanisms.

20. "The potential protective effect of caffeine is
thought to occur primarily through the
blockade of adenosine A2A receptors (ARs),
whose expression and function become
aberrant with both normal aging and age-
related pathology."

21. In other words drinking coffee slows down or
reverses an effect of aging!

22. This is just another example of the health
aspects of coffee.

23. Antioxidants in coffee are good for you and
caffeine by itself is helpful in preventing
depression and reducing the risk of suicide.

24. Now you can drink your java with the firm
knowledge that coffee improves your
memory now and for years to come.