{"id":308,"date":"2016-07-15T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2016-07-15T07:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:21:26","slug":"sweet-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/308\/sweet-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor learners really aren\u2019t to blame,<\/p>\n<p>They cannot switch what\u2019s in their brain;<\/p>\n<p>The hippocampus is at fault,<\/p>\n<p>For making their connections halt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s proteins that we must disdain,<\/p>\n<p>Poor learners really aren\u2019t to blame;<\/p>\n<p>C-R-E-B and GABRA5,<\/p>\n<p>Determine if recall can thrive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If one is high and one is low,<\/p>\n<p>Then learning will not be so slow.<\/p>\n<p>The other way brings memory shame,<\/p>\n<p>Poor learners really aren\u2019t to blame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But cinnamon can bring great clout,<\/p>\n<p>And help the hippocampus out;<\/p>\n<p>So let our taste buds all exclaim:<\/p>\n<p>Poor learners really aren\u2019t to blame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-309\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-309\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A potential cure for poor learning (Photo Credit: Simon A. Eugster - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)?\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices-200x115.jpg 200w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Cinnamomum_verum_spices.jpg 1612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A potential cure for poor learning (Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=39582136\" target=\"_blank\">Simon A. Eugster &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/quatern.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quatern<\/a>, written about <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11481-016-9693-6\" target=\"_blank\">recent research<\/a> that has demonstrated how cinnamon can potentially improve learning. Research has shown that the key to whether or not someone is a good learner is probably related to the hippocampus, a small part in the brain that generates, organises and stores memory. It has previously been found that good learners have more CREB (a protein involved in memory and learning) and less GABRA5 (another protein that can slow down the rate at which the brain communicates) than poor learners.<\/p>\n<p>By feeding cinnamon to mice that were perceived to be poor learners, the researchers found that this lead to an increase in their CREB and a decrease in their GABRA5 levels. The learning ability of the mice was initially tested using a Barnes maze, which is a circular maze with 20 holes. After a month of being fed cinnamon, it was found that the learning and memory of the poor learning mice had improved to that of the good learning mice. However, the cinnamon seemed to have no effect on the mice that were already perceived to be good learners.<\/p>\n<p>This research could have profound implications on our ability to convert poor learners to good learners, involving a natural and relatively cheap ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>An audio version of this poem can be heard <a href=\"https:\/\/macguffin.io\/sam-illingworth\/sweet-learning\/read\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor learners really aren\u2019t to blame, They cannot switch what\u2019s in their brain; The hippocampus is at fault, For making their connections halt. &nbsp; It\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,65,247,63,2,3],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-poems","tag-brain","tag-health","tag-learning","tag-mice","tag-poetry","tag-science","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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