Can High-Fructose Corn Syrup Affect Your Intelligence?
By: Marissa Brassfield
Published: May 20, 2012

Medical Xpress has recently revealed that eating a diet with elevated consumption of high-fructose corn syrup can affect long-term memory and cognition problems. The study, done on rats, showed that those exposed to the syrup without any other factors had trouble remembering routes they'd learned six weeks prior.
Read the full findings here. For more on the chemical sweetener, check out this article on the truth about HFCS.