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glycineFinding

Glycine has no detected effect on working memory performance

no difference foundVery limited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“No significant effects of glycine were found on measures of working memory, declarative memory, attention or perceptual processing.”
Quoted verbatim from The cognitive effects of modulating the glycine site of the NMDA receptor with high-dose glycine in healthy controls.
This finding among the 8 findings on its endpoint

glycine

Working memory performance

no difference found

Who
Healthy young subjects, single acute dose, placebo-controlled repeated-measures design with 5-day washout
Dose studied
0.8 g/kg glycine orally, single acute dose

Very limited evidencePMID 17972276 · 2008

02 · The study

Study
crossover
Duration
1 day

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limited
  • very limitedthis finding
  • insufficient

04 · To cite this finding

This address does not change

https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6ZK9402HY73GCK1PQD34V6B