Evaluation of Extract of Ginkgo Biloba [EGB] and its effect on memory of healthy volunteer students in Mashad university

ABSTRACT

Memory is an essential factor for any activity in humans. We cannot do any simple tasks without memory. So, scientists have done research on factors, which influence the memory and enforce it. The purpose of this study is evaluating the effect of Ginkgo biloba on the memory of healthy students who have volunteered in Mashad universities. The study consists of 141 healthy volunteered students [67 Female and 74 male] that primarily did not have any organic or non organic disease. The main inclusion criteria for being admitted in the study were getting a score below the cut of point in the G.H.Q., BDI and scl 90 of the screening tests. After that the students were divided into two groups randomly and the W.M.S.R test was done on them before and after prescribing Ginkgo to one group and placebo to the other one. The Ginkgo can increase all subtests of WMS-R except INF and ORE subtest, MCO and vis. Extract of Ginkgo biloba can be a good and low risk alternative for increasing the memory of the youth and adults especially the ones with a memory failure background: