Coffee, a popular morning beverage to kick start the day, is often consumed for alertness. But some researchers believe drinking coffee in the long-term can also change the brain.
For some time, research on both animals and humans have suggested that long-term consumption of caffeine improves learning and intelligence by fine-tuning neurons for efficient neural activity and increasing the number of states the brain can have.
Bees that consumed caffeine are able to remember a previously learned floral scent.
People who took caffeine straight after learning scored higher marks in discrimination tasks.
Caffeine’s possible relationship with learning and cognition may also be why coffee drinkers have been shown time and time again to have a lower risk of developing cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease….