Moreover, the researchers report, lithium chloride - treated mice were much less likely to show the 25 percent drop in memory and
cognitive test scores seen in untreated mice given the same amount of alcohol.
A compelling way to
see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average
test -
score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid
cognitive ability at the end of that period (
see Figure 2).