{"id":350,"date":"2014-01-13T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=350"},"modified":"2014-01-13T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:32:11","slug":"caffeine-may-enhance-memory-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/caffeine-may-enhance-memory-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Caffeine may enhance memory consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studying for that big exam? A new study found that taking 200 mg caffeine-pills one hour after &#8211; not before &#8211; a learning session improved memory performance the following day. Over 100 healthy people particpated in this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, but the mechanisms that explain this effect are still unclear.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nn.3623.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research article<\/a><\/span> published in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>\u00a0on <strong>January 12, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yassalab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael A. Yassa<\/a><\/span>, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying for that big exam? A new study found that taking 200 mg caffeine-pills one hour after &#8211; not before &#8211; a learning session improved memory performance the following day. Over 100 healthy people particpated in this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, but the mechanisms that explain this effect are still unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}