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Green Tea Can Improve Your Memory

April 18, 2014 / Leave a comment

By Marisa Sanchez, Molecular and Cellular Biology ’15

Green tea has been said to have several health benefits including helping prevent certain types of cancer and inflammation. In a new study done by Dr. Beglinger and Dr. Borgwardt at the University of Basel in Switzerland, they have found that green tea extract enhances cognitive functions, particularly the working memory because green tea extract increases the brain’s effective connectivity, the causal influence that one part of the brain exerts on another part. (more…)