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Epicatechin, a component of dark chocolate, enhances memory formation if applied during the memory consolidation period.
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- Investigating the interactions between multiple memory stores in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Article
- A flavonoid, quercetin, is capable of enhancing long-term memory formation if encountered at different times in the learning, memory formation, and memory recall continuum.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- The Possible Protective Role of Dark Chocolate Against Acrylamide Neurotoxicity in Weaning Rats Cerebellum.Molecular neurobiology · 2022Article
- Effects of Dark Chocolate Intake on Brain Electrical Oscillations in Healthy People.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Green tea and cocoa enhance cognition inCommunicative & integrative biology · 2018Article
- Black tea differs from green tea: it suppresses long-term memory formation inCommunicative & integrative biology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Epicatechin (Epi), a flavanol found in foods such as dark chocolate has previously been shown to enhance memory formation in our model system, operant conditioning of aerial respiration in Lymnaea. In those experiments snails were trained in Epi. Here we ask whether snails exposed to Epi before training, during the consolidation period immediately following training, or 1 h after training would enhance memory formation. We report here that Epi is only able to enhance memory if snails are placed in Epi-containing pond water immediately after training. That is, Epi enhances memory formation if it is applied during the memory consolidation period as well as if snails are trained in Epi-containing pond water.
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