Coffee 'can make mind go blank'

[grinner]

Coffee 'can make mind go blank'
By Nic Fleming
(Filed: 20/07/2004)

Drinking coffee can cause tip-of-the-tongue moments when the brain struggles to retrieve information, according to a study.

Caffeine, widely held to make people more alert, can make the mind go blank or struggle to switch between trains of thought.

It can help the brain process information rapidly but interferes once the brain tries to switch between subjects, researchers claim.

Volunteers were split into two groups, with one given 200 milligrams of caffeine - the equivalent of two cups of coffee. They then answered 100 questions after reading 10 "priming words" with between two and eight of the words sounding similar to the answer.

Caffeine appeared to help participants find the correct answers when primed with many similar sounding words. But when there were more unrelated priming words they suffered more tip-of-the-tongue moments than those who had not had coffee.

The study, by researchers in Italy, is published in Behavioral Neuroscience.link (http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/20/wcoff20.xml)

[scrape_medic]

.....so anyrate thats all I know about penguins........er coffee hmm.....what....whats that you say.......frell, its on the tip of my tongue.....

[abbadon]

Taste Buds ?......Saliva..?.......Butter and Jam..?....Am I warm Am I huh?.. :bounce:

[scrape_medic]

Close but no banana..:)

[DRD2001]

Wouldn't this affect cola drinkers as well?

[scrape_medic]

You'd think it would, if its the caffeine......and red bull drinkers and ayone who take proplus..

[DRD2001]

I guess it doesn't give much hope to the Pepsi generation.

[scrape_medic]

Hey, they won't remember

[DRD2001]

:lol Now thats funny. :lol

[Darth Buddha]

Close but no banana..:)

Wait, somebody ELSE around here spent some time in the primate lab?

(note to those who haven't: do NOT be around when they cremate the baboons)

[DRD2001]

(note to those who haven't: do NOT be around when they cremate the baboons)What do they do?

[Darth Buddha]

They smell... awful. Even worse than when they cremate the dogs, or the rats.

[DRD2001]

Oh. I thought you were going to say they exploded or something.
I can't speak much for baboons, but I did get to work on some Rhesus monkeys which had been in a freezer for 10 years. Major league gross.

[scrape_medic]

At least your dead bodies are kept in the freezer! Mine don't get noticed till the smell is fully developed........:insert pinch nose and run like hell smilie here:

[grinner]

so, have you ever had a body explode on ya, scrape? All bloated and full of gases... so if you hit a bump... they liquify?

[scrape_medic]

eeewwww, nooooooo

If they are that bad, they don't travel.......they just wait for the clean up crew to get there....

Mind had a few live ones that have been pretty close, and on a side note to any one thinking of doing CPR, don't be surprised if you crack a few ribs ( shich sounds awful) and all that pushing on the chest can elicit a good few noise, from both directions.

Its okay, your not doing it wrong, its quite normal.

[abbadon]

^....heh heh....Actually Forcing yourself to grin helps you to cope with such smells....it nullifys the gag reflex...

ETA meant for grinner...but fits either way... ;)

[Darth Buddha]

That's bad, scrapes. I think that tops all of mine for gross.

For bizarre, I think my tops was disposing of radio-active dog bones from a freezer... yep, that's right... fido got nuked, boned, then frozen.

I live in a strange universe.

Things like that are fairly normal.

.... wait a second... what were we talking about before? It is on the tip of my tongue... but it just escapes me!

[abbadon]

Sounds like something Robin the boy Wonder would say..."Radioactive dog bones Batman....They're getting away.."

[scrape_medic]

Yes, grinning does help.....it also is a normal reflex when you have two newbies to the job, trying to cope with the smell of some old dear who has pooped her pants and called them out to clean it up, (sorry this is getting gross). I am laughing my head off whilst they are trying to bury theirs in their shirts. They can't understand how I am not gagging too. Hysterical.....:rollin:

(yeah, I really am that cruel..)

[DRD2001]

At least your dead bodies are kept in the freezer! Not entirely. Everytime a hurricane or severe storm came through, the biomedical research facility would lose power. So what I got were thawed and refrozen monkeys, many times over. I had a filter mask, gloves and worked on the monkeys inside a hood with the vent on and it still didn't help. Monkeys do start to liquify after a while.

[scrape_medic]

Masks! you have masks!......yeah actually that does sound pretty gross....eeww

[abbadon]

See thats what I love about this place .....start out talking about caffiene....end up talking liquified Monkeys.... :signlol:

[scrape_medic]

well one thing does lead eventually to the other......somehow.....er.....

how did that happen again? so back to caffeine.....yeah, that was it

[DRD2001]

See thats what I love about this place .....start out talking about caffiene....end up talking liquified Monkeys.... :signlol:Liquified monkey, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

Nah, as for caffine, I'm pretty much off of it. No coffee and no soft drinks. But I certainly don't feel like my memory is any better.

[Darth Buddha]

Liquified monkey... liquefied Prowler Pilots... is there a secret connection?

I've got an enquiring mind, and I wanna know!

[scrape_medic]

Maybe this thread went through a wormhole....it might explain a few things.

[abbadon]

Liquified monkey... liquefied Prowler Pilots... is there a secret connection?

I've got an enquiring mind, and I wanna know!

Yes I'm sure there are labs that have attempted to send a Monkey through a wormhole.........and I'm sure the Worm didn't appreciate it one little bit... :rolleyes:

[DRD2001]

Maybe our minds went through a wormhole. Now that would explain a few things.

[scrape_medic]

Yes I'm sure there are labs that have attempted to send a Monkey through a wormhole.........and I'm sure the Worm didn't appreciate it one little bit... :rolleyes::lol

[norweigan_scaper]

*shifts uncomfortably*

;)

[LT Garrix]

Sounds like something Robin the boy Wonder would say..."Radioactive dog bones Batman....They're getting away.."

I only read the first part and just about fell out of my chair. That would make a great tabloid headline. "Radioactive dog bones Batman"

Sorry, it must be the caffeine, my attention span only lasted that long...um, what was I talking about? Liquified monkeys?

[norweigan_scaper]

I only read the first part and just about fell out of my chair. That would make a great tabloid headline. "Radioactive dog bone Batman"

Sorry, it must be the caffeine, my attention span only lasted that long...um, what was I talking about? Liquified monkeys?

hehe lets hear it for the legacy of our generation, the short, caffeine induced, attention span :D

[DRD2001]

Yes I'm sure there are labs that have attempted to send a Monkey through a wormhole.........and I'm sure the Worm didn't appreciate it one little bit... :rolleyes:Oh my! Ummmm and Ewwwwwwwww

[scrape_medic]

Takes on a whole new meaning when you read it that way LT G

[abbadon]

I only read the first part and just about fell out of my chair. That would make a great tabloid headline. "Radioactive dog bones Batman"





Takes on a whole new meaning when you read it that way LT G

:spew: ....

Hadn't occured to me....must be getting slow..

[BrowderChick]

How did I miss this thread? :roflmao:

[DRD2001]

How did I miss this thread? :roflmao:Did you have coffee for breakfast this morning?

[BrowderChick]

:lol No actually I had Pepsi :lol

[DRD2001]

Well Pepsi is better than liquified monkey. Or so I've been told.

[LT Garrix]

Well Pepsi is better than liquified monkey. Or so I've been told.

Maybe you should try a Pepsi to be sure. ;)

[scrape_medic]

Maybe you should try a Pepsi to be sure. ;)
:lol

smells better too, apparently, or maybe thats why they are always smiling in the pepsi ads

[BrowderChick]

Im sure it looks better too. :lol

[trinamick]

I think this study is pure bunk. I drink Mt. Dew all day, and I never have a problem remembering what I'm going to...um..what's the word...ya know, when you're talking...

[scrape_medic]

trinamick....you were saying?

[scaper4eva]

what ever trinamick said now if i could only remeber what that woz...

[BrowderChick]

Wha? Were you saying something?

Pepsi goes good with lunch too.

Now what were we talking about?

[TheBladeRoden]

mmmmmm exploding animals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586/
can't remember if this was posted here or some other forum but here it is anyway! Make sure you aren't eating lunch though!

[scaper4eva]

what about coke has anyone studied coke's effect on the brain?

[scaper4eva]

eeeeewwww just saw the pick, hate to be the one covered in whale intrails.

[BrowderChick]

Yes that was posted here a while back. eeewwwww

[Mike0812]

*sits back, opens a can of pepsi* :otc:, ahhhhh...

why am I here again? :(...something about, uh, drinkin' liquified monkeys, no wait eewwwww...
:think:

[LT Garrix]

That's pretty eeewwww, but I love the title "Thar she blows!" :roflmao: Someone's probably been waiting years to use that one.

[who45]

Well, here I thought... Ooohh a thread about my addiction...coffee..but uumm..I think it took on a whole new turn for a while :lol

[DRD2001]

This is so pathetic. I'm trying to figure out what to have for dinner, and now all I can think about is exploding whales and liquified monkey.

True story. Driving into work, I got behind a guts truck. It sloshed chicken guts all over the road and I couldn't avoid it. That stuff got embedded all under my car, even after I went through the car wash twice. Ewwww, it was nasty nasty nasty. It took a week for the smell to start to fade. Uck!

[BrowderChick]

This is so pathetic. I'm trying to figure out what to have for dinner, and now all I can think about is exploding whales and liquified monkey.

True story. Driving into work, I got behind a guts truck. It sloshed chicken guts all over the road and I couldn't avoid it. That stuff got embedded all under my car, even after I went through the car wash twice. Ewwww, it was nasty nasty nasty. It took a week for the smell to start to fade. Uck!
YUK!!!


Whats worse? Hitting that had to be really gross. I would hate to be the clean up crew.

[DRD2001]

No clean up crew. It wasn't a huge spill requiring clean up, just a slosh over the sides and back of the truck hauling it. And it sloshed its way all through town. I kept seeing puddles here and there along my route to work. Needless to say, it made driving in traffic interesting.

[BrowderChick]

Im sure it did. Glad I wasnt there for it. Wonder what the driver of the truck was dealing with. YUK! :lol

[Digger]

True story. Driving into work, I got behind a guts truck. It sloshed chicken guts all over the road and I couldn't avoid it. That stuff got embedded all under my car, even after I went through the car wash twice. Ewwww, it was nasty nasty nasty. It took a week for the smell to start to fade. Uck!Were these the remains of all the chickens that tried to cross the road but never made it? Was this their revenge from beyond the grave?

[AxezCore]

This is all just a conspiracy by all them pancy teadrinkers... hold on a sec, I needs to git me some coffee... :coffee:

now.. as I was saying.. you know.. umm...
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/forumfun/misc15.jpg
Disclaimer: No Small furry animals were harmed during the production of this post.

[trinamick]

trinamick....you were saying?

Say! Yes, that's the word I was thinking of!

Actually, I do have a problem with the tip of the tongue issue. I don't drink coffee very often, but I do drink copius amounts of Dew. There are times when I'll start a sentence and the rest of it just goes right out the window. Of course, I'm kind of the absent minded professor anyrate, since I tend to multitask to the extreme. It's the stuff of legend at work, because I tend to talk too fast and mix words up (i.e. take the camera out of the film, etc.).

The chiropractor told me once that if something is out, and you are not getting enough oxygen to your brain, you start to mix words up, drop things, lose your train of thought, etc. Usually, my train of thought is still boarding at the station.

[scrape_medic]

Tea has caffeine in it as well.....that may explain something about the English

[Darth Buddha]

And now for something completely different.

[BrowderChick]

:clap:

[DRD2001]

I guess I'm having sushi for dinner... with Pepsi.

[Third EYe]

great

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

This is all just a conspiracy by all them pancy teadrinkers... hold on a sec, I needs to git me some coffee... :coffee:

now.. as I was saying.. you know.. umm...
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/forumfun/misc15.jpg
Disclaimer: No Small furry animals were harmed during the production of this post.

How does one go about finding a picture of a bunny with a pancake on it's head? It boggles the mind even more than coffee!
:coffee: :dunno:

Girlie :curtsey:

[AxezCore]

How does one go about finding a picture of a bunny with a pancake on it's head? It boggles the mind even more than coffee!
:coffee: :dunno:

Girlie :curtsey:

You can see the source for it at the bottom of the pic ;)

ebaumsworld (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/forumfun.html) have a whole bunch of pictures made for use in forums like this :)

[DRD2001]

:lol Its a good picture.

Did you hear about this bunny?
http://www.nbc10.com/slideshow/news/3487307/detail.html

Roberto is one big bunny. In fact, he's the size of your average 3-year-old child. The continental giant rabbit from Worcester, England, is 3.5 feet long and weighs 27 pounds. (He may have made the Guinness Book of World Records in the past, but the publication no longer lists large animals for fear that people might overfeed their pets to win.)

[BrowderChick]

I looked through all of them and that was ummmm... ODD. :lol

[AgentSun]

havent read all the comments, but i have one question...

they took what equals to 2 cups of coffee. so....how many of us drink 2 cups of coffee at the same time? i mean, it sounds like a really dumb question, but i would think that taking 2 cups of coffee would make the body react differently than 2 cups of coffee a day or 2 cups of coffee in a row, even. 2 cups of coffee at one time, though, i would think, makes a difference. but i could be wrong.

[scrape_medic]

You're wrong....

[AgentSun]

axezcore, a while ago, i took that bunny pancake picture and put it on a shirt. it was a huge hit with people at college.

[scaper4eva]

bunnies & pancakes....a hit huh?

[DRD2001]

bunnies & pancakes....a hit huh?Isn't it always. If Hugh Hefner had opened IHOPs...