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Medical News Article on Caffeine



Caffeine jump-starts short-term memory



2005 DEC 26 -- For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that caffeine modulates short-term working memory.

The study was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

"We were able to show that caffeine modulates a higher brain function through its effects on distinct areas of the brain," said the paper's lead author, Florian Koppelstatter, MD, PhD, radiology fellow at Medical University Innsbruck in Austria.

Koppelstatter and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine the effects of caffeine consumption on brain activation in a network of modules...

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