GLUCOSE EFFECTS ON MEMORY

GLUCOSE EFFECTS ON MEMORY AND OTHER NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS IN ELDERLY HUMANS The purpose of this kind of test was to find out if the level of glucose had any kind of effect on the memory. Another goal of this experiment was to determine whether glucose affects memory on other tests as well, and whether the glucose effects are restricted to memory or whether they include effects on overall cognitive, attention and motor functions. The test …

…It was so obvious that this experiment suggests that glucose ingestion enhances performance on memory tests in elderly subjects. The enhancement of memory was observed on two declarative memory tests, the selective reminding test and logical memory subtest. Digits span did not show a glucose effect. Also the glucose did not affect the short-term memory neither it affected the figure design. Moreover, the glucose did not affect any of the cognitive, attention, or motor functions.