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How your morning coffee is changing the structure of your brain
- nickburns 2y agoFrustratring lack of conclusiveness but alas, such is science. Hard to imagine how a reduction in neural cell/synapse volume, albeit acute, wouldn't have any lasting effects. "The effect of caffeine on the brain was noted as particularly relevant in the right medial temporal lobe. This area of the brain includes the hippocampus and is responsible for processes such as memory formation and spatial cognition." If you become temporarily worse at memory formation, that stands to reason as being ipso facto bad for overall memory accumulation.
- d0mine 2y agoSmall sample size 20 participants 10 days https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/31/6/3096/6135013 https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/31/6/3096/6135013
- itkovian_ 2y agoCompletely anecdotal; the amount of people that do not consume caffeine seems overrepresented among very very smart people (i.e. math profs, researchers etc)
- red369 2y agoIt might be that both not consuming caffeine, and being very very smart, have the same root cause - like good sleep patterns. Just an unresearched thought I had!
- sno129 2y agoOn the other hand, the amount of people that consume excess amounts of caffeine also seems overrepresented among such people.