Methods 193 normal subjects were tested by mini-mentalstateexamination (MMSE), wordimmediaterecalland word delayedrecalltest, clockdrawing test, digitspan test and verbalfluency test.
They found that patients showed significant improvement in the delayed verbalrecall task, in which participants were asked to remember what they had been told earlier.
There were also cognitive and memory tasks that the drink did not seem to improve, according to the study, and the researchers should look further into what other improvements can be seen besides the verbalrecall finding, Gu said.