Stroke Drug Might Be a Memory-Booster, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) And Arizona State University

ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2009) — A team of Arizona psychologists, geneticists and neuroscientists has reported that a safe and effective drug used to treat vascular problems in the brain has improved spatial learning and working memory in middle-aged rats. Although far from proving anything about human use of the drug, the finding supports the scientific quest for a substance that could treat progressive cognitive impairment, cushion the cognitive impact of normal aging, or even enhance learning and memory throughout the life span.