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Article: Nicotine patch may boost memory But researcher quick to warn: 'You should not smoke'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 7, 2003
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Forgot where you left the car keys? Can't remember what you came
into the room to do? Maybe a little hit off the nicotine patch can
help with those "senior moments."
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found that
nicotine, that infamous drug that makes cigarettes so addictive and
dangerous, might improve short-term memory.
"The first thing I want to say right off the top is that you
should not smoke," said Edward Levin, a nicotine researcher and co-
author of a report on the memory effects of nicotine in the journal
Psychopharmacology.
That said, Levin stated that when nicotine is delivered in a