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Memory Decline and Blood Sugar
A new study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and published in the December 2008 issue of Annals of Neurology reports that spikes in blood sugar can negatively affect a part of the brain that helps form memories. The findings say that even when blood sugar (glucose) levels are only moderately increased, the dentate gyrus, located in the hippocampus of the brain, is affected.