Twenty-five volunteers aged between 18 and 52 years old took part in the study and were asked to remember a list of words.

Those that drank orange-flavoured water containing 25g of sugar, about the same as a can of Coca-Cola, could remember 11 per cent more words.

If the participants consumed twice that amount of sugar, they showed a 17 per cent improvement.

They were also around 100 milliseconds faster at remembering sets of letters shown to them a few minutes earlier.

Dr Riby continued: "Our research shows that consuming a glucose drink can significantly boost memory recall.

"What's more, our work on young and middle aged adults shows if we can 'train' our bodies early in life to effectively use their own glucose reserves, poor memory function can be minimised in adulthood."

Dr Riby's study, which is funded by the NHS and The Wellcome Trust, aims to use glucose supplements to enhance memory in patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Dementia affects more than 63,000 people in Scotland and costs the NHS millions of pounds in care. ( finished)

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　　（续）报道说，共有25名年龄在18岁至52岁的志愿者接受了此次研究。他们按照科学家的要求记下一些单词。研究发现，那些志愿者喝了含有25克糖分的桔子味饮料（大约相当于一罐可口可乐），可以多记住11％的单词。

　　报道说，莱比博士的这项研究受到了英国国民卫生服务体系及英国威康基金会（Wellcome Trust）共同资助的。这项研究旨在使用葡萄糖补充剂来提高那些痴呆症患者的记忆力。