Comment · Wed, August 23, 2017 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Are Increased Gaba Receptors By Chronic Caffeine Intake A Good Thing?
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trulybadass · 34 points
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437321/
"The density of cortical benzodiazepine-binding sites associated with GABAA receptors is increased by 65%"
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eliteHaxxxor · 2 points
So would you say chronic longterm use of nicotine would lead to a poorer memory by desensitizing nicotinic ACh receptors?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Possibly. Even acute nicotine impairs some aspects of memory.
The effects of nicotine upon memory and problem solving performance
The results of this experiment provide clear evidence that nicotine impairs both recall and recognition of material learned in the drug state, but does not influence subjects' overall problem solving performance. Also of interest are the observations that the drug effect was the same for material encoded at both levels of task difficulty, and that memory for both read and generated material did not vary as a function of the drug. Although different tasks were used, this study replicates and extends the findings of Houston et al. [8], in that nicotine impaired memory, but did not appear to influence higher order cognitive operations.