{"id":947,"date":"2010-09-12T14:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T09:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/12\/coffee-and-cigarettes-for-your-brain\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T09:23:24","slug":"coffee-and-cigarettes-for-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/09\/12\/coffee-and-cigarettes-for-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Cigarettes for your brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/sciammind\/?contents=2010-09\" title=\"to issue TOC\">September 2010 Scientific American Mind<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=prescription-coffee-and-cigarettes#comments\">17 comments<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Prescription for a Healthier Brain: Coffee and Cigarettes?<\/h1>\n<h2>Discovering why even bad habits can protect the brain<\/h2>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\tBy  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author.cfm?id=2290\">Michele Solis<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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Trap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"descr\">Perspectives<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=its-not-dementia-its-your-heart-medication\">It&#8217;s Not Dementia, It&#8217;s Your Heart Medication<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Inspired by human studies showing that avid coffee drinkers and  smokers have a lower risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease, scientists at the  University of Washington decided to see what java and cigarettes do to  fruit flies. The tremors and other movement impairments of Parkinson\u2019s  are triggered by the death of dopamine-producing cells in the brain, so  the investigators used flies that had been genetically engineered to  have their dopamine cells die off as they age. When Leo Pallanck and his colleagues fed coffee and tobacco extracts to these flies, they found  that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/topic.cfm?id=animals\">animals<\/a>\u2019 dopamine cells survived and their life span increased. 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