Memory Loss, Advanced Techniques To Improve Long-Term Memory!

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Understanding Memory Loss, Long-Term, Short-Term Memory:

Every day, you have different experiences and you learn new things. Your brain cannot store all of that information, so it has to decide what is worth remembering. Memory is the process of storing and then remembering this information. There are different types of memory. advanced

Short-term memory stores information for a few seconds or minutes. Long-term memory stores it for a longer period of time. Memory doesn’t always work perfectly. As you grow older, it may take longer to remember things.

Memory loss (amnesia) is unusual forgetfulness. You may not be able to remember new events, recall one or more memories of the past, or both. The memory loss maybe for a short time and then resolve (transient). Or, it may not go away, and, depending on the cause, it can get worse over time. advanced

Causes:

1. Normal aging can cause some forgetfulness:

It is normal to have some trouble learning new material or needing more time to remember it. But normal aging does not lead to dramatic memory loss. Such memory loss is due to other diseases.

2. Memory loss can be caused by many things:

To determine a cause, your health care provider will ask if the problem came on suddenly or slowly.

3. Many areas of the brain help you create and retrieve memories:

A problem in any of these areas can lead to memory loss.

4. Memory loss may result from a new injury to the brain, which is caused by or is present after:

• Brain tumor.
• Cancer treatment, such as brain radiation, bone marrow transplant, or chemotherapy
  Concussion or head trauma.
• Not enough oxygen getting to the brain when your heart or breathing is stopped for too long
  Severe brain infection or infection around the brain.
• Major surgery or severe illness, including brain surgery.
• Transient global amnesia (sudden, temporary loss of memory) of unclear cause
  Transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke.
• Hydrocephalus (fluid collection in the brain).

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Memory Loss Occurs With Mental Health Problems, Such as:

• After a major, traumatic, or stressful event.
• Bipolar disorder.
• Depression or other mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia.

Memory loss may be a sign of dementia. Dementia also affects thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.

Other causes of memory loss include:

• Alcohol or use of prescription or illegal drugs.
• Brain infections such as Lyme disease, syphilis, or HIV/AIDS.
• Overuse of medicines, such as barbiturates or (hypnotics).
• ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) (most often short-term memory loss).
• Epilepsy is not well controlled.
• An illness that results in the loss of, or damage to brain tissue or nerve cells, such as Parkinson’s.
• disease, Huntington disease, or multiple sclerosis.
• Low levels of important nutrients or vitamins, such as low vitamin B1 or B12

Advanced Techniques To Improve Your Long-Term Memory:

1. Physical Exercise:

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Over the years, as more studies are conducted on the human brain, it has become more apparent to scientists that the connections between the body and mind are stronger than were previously imagined.

• Not only is physical exercise important for keeping the body healthy, but it has also become apparent that it may reduce the chances of a person developing dementia or other memory disorders.
• There are a number of reasons why this occurs. has an effect on the cardiovascular system that is well documented. It seems that there is a connection between the health and the health of the heart.
• It has been discovered that it is also responsible for the regulation of the blood sugar levels.
• Experts believe that the amount of glucose tolerance in the body has an effect on the size of the hippocampus.
• In addition to this, exercise will increase the amount of blood flow, and this blood is rich in oxygen.
• Increasing the amount of oxygen and blood will allow it to function correctly, and this will have an effect on memory.
• While is important for both men and women, research has shown that it is more important for aging women than men. advanced

2. Mental Exercise:

Performing a mental exercise twice a day could help delay the rapid memory loss associated with dementia for more than a year.

A study of nearly 500 people aged 75 to 85 years looked at how often they did crosswords or puzzles, read, wrote, or played card games. Of those who developed dementia, people who did 11 mental exercises a week developed memory problems about a year and four months later on average than those who did four exercises a week.

It is a small wonder that the Chinese are fond of playing mahjong to keep their minds sharp. In western countries, playing bridge or poker also helps.

3. Get Quality Sleep:

Scientists have debated over the years on the role of sleep and memory. One entertaining theory suggests that we needed sleep, when we were cavemen, to keep us wandering out of our caves and being eaten by sabertooth tigers. 

One of the things we do know is that young birds and mammals need as much as three times the amount of sleep as adult birds and mammals.  It has been suspected that neuronal connections are remodeled during sleep, and this has recently been supported in a study using cats.

(Cats who were allowed to sleep for six hours after their vision was blocked in one eye for six hours, developed twice as many new or modified brain connections as those cats who were kept awake in a dark room for the six hours after the period of visual deprivation).

• In humans, sleep is necessary for memory consolidation. 
• Sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea leave you tired and unable to concentrate during the day.

4. Manage Your Stress:

Have you ever forgotten something during a stressful situation that you should have remembered?

• Chronic over-secretion of the stress hormone, Cortisol, adversely affects brain function, especially memory.
• Cortisol also interferes with the function of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that brain cells use to communicate with each other.
• Excessive cortisol can make it difficult to think or retrieve long-term memories.

 

That’s why people get befuddled and confused during a severe crisis. Their mind goes blank because “the lines are down. ” They can’t remember where the fire exit is,

For Example:

• Stress hormones divert blood glucose to exercising muscles, therefore the amount of glucose hence energy that reaches the brain’s hippocampus is diminished. 
• This creates an energy crisis in the hippocampus which compromises its ability to create new memories. 
• That may be why some people can’t remember a very traumatic event, and why short-term memory is usually the first casualty of age-related memory loss resulting from a lifetime of stress.

5. Nutrition:

You probably know already that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and “healthy” fats will provide lots of health benefits, but such a diet can also improve memory. Studies have shown that certain nutrients nurture and stimulate brain function.

For Instance:

• 1. Vitamin A combats toxins that damage brain cells. 
• 2. Vitamin B1 is needed to produce the brain chemical acetylcholine, crucial for concentration levels and memory.
• 3. Vitamin B3 is essential for brain health. advanced
• 4. Vitamin B6 improves nerve communication. 
• 5. Vitamin B12 is needed to create the myelin sheath that protects nerves and speeds up the rate of electrical transmission. 
• 6. Pantothenic acid is essential for the production of the brain chemical acetylcholine. 
• 7. Folic acid seems to help guard against the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

I. Best Sources:

Spinach and other dark leafy greens, broccoli, asparagus, strawberries, melons, black beans and other legumes, citrus fruits, soybeans.)

• Choline is needed to produce acetylcholine. 
• Vitamin C neutralizes harmful free radicals that may damage brain cells. 
• Vitamin E boosts brain function.

B. Best Sources:

(blueberries and other berries, sweet potatoes, red tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, green tea, nuts and seeds, citrus fruits, liver.) advanced advanced advanced

• Omega3 fatty acids are concentrated in the brain and are associated with cognitive function.
• They count as “healthy” fats, as opposed to saturated fats and trans fats, protecting against inflammation and high cholesterol.

C. Best Sources:

(Cold-water fish such as salmon, herring, tuna, halibut, and mackerel; walnuts and walnut oil; flaxseed and flaxseed oil).

• Because older adults are more prone to B12 and folic acid deficiencies, a supplement may be a good idea for seniors.
• An omega-3 supplement (at any age) if you don’t like eating fish.

 

But nutrients work best when they’re consumed in foods, so try your best to eat a broad spectrum of colorful plant foods and choose fats that will help clear, not clog, your arteries.

6. Focus, Concentrate, Pay Attention:

If Memory Was a Car, Attention Would Be its Fuel:

New information is not stored in memory if not attended to, and distraction often leads to misremembering past events. You can’t remember something if you never learned it, and you can’t learn something that is not processed by your brain if you have not paid attention. techniques techniques

It takes about eight seconds of intent focus to process a piece of information through your hippocampus and into the appropriate memory center. So, if you need to concentrate, do not do multiple jobs at the same time. If you distract easily, try to receive information in a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted. advanced 

7. Involve Your Senses:

If you’re a visual learner, even when you are reading, you are seeing the information. For non-written material or physical items, really try to concentrate. 

• Look carefully and slowly at the shape, color, texture of the object, the material its made of.
• The readout is loud what you want to remember. techniques
• If you can recite it rhythmically, better still.
• Try to relate information to colors, textures, smells, and tastes.
• The physical act of rewriting information can help imprint it onto your brain.
• If it’s a procedure or action you need to remember, do it. Do it several times.
• The act of “doing” is a separate mental pathway that you create.
• Just reading about something (or just hearing someone else explain how to do it) is not good enough.

8. Memory Strategies:

Mnemonics are linkages of any kind that help us remember something, usually by causing us to associate the information we want to remember with a visual image, a sentence, or a word.

Common Types of  Mnemonic Devices Are:

1. Visual Images:

• For example, thorns for remembering the name “Tony”, brine (salt solution) for “Brian”.
• Use images that are ludicrous or out of the ordinary to make your memory stand out, they’ll be easier to remember.
• Sentences in which the first letter of each word is part of or represents the initial of what you want to remember.
• Musicians, for example, first memorized the lines of the treble staff with the sentence “Every good boy does fine” (or “deserves favor”), representing the notes E, G, B, D, and F.
• Medical students often learn groups of nerves, bones, and other anatomical features using nonsense sentences.

2. Acronyms,

Which Are Initials That Creates Pronounceable Words:

For example:

The colors of the rainbow are VIBGYOR for Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red.

3. Rhymes And Alliteration: 

Remember learning “30 days have September, April, June, and November”? A hefty guy named Benedict can be remembered as “Big Ben” and an obnoxious co-worker as “Pushy Paula” (though it might be best to keep such names to yourself).

4. “Chunking” Information That is:

arranging a long list in smaller units or categories that are easier to remember. It’s easier to memorize your credit card number if you can arrange the numbers in groups of 3 or 4 instead of a line of 16 numbers. advanced advanced advanced

9. Keeping What You Learnt Locked In:

• It is not uncommon to forget a large part of what you studied for a test.
• If a review is organized properly, recall rates can be kept high shortly after learning has been completed.
• to accomplish this, a program interval of review must take place, each review is done at the time just before a recall is about to drop.

 

For example:

The first review should take place about 10 minutes after a one-hour learning period and should itself take 5 minutes.

• This will keep the recalled high for about one day when the next review should take place, this time for a period of 2 to 4 minutes.
• After this, the recall will probably be retained for about a week, when another 2 minutes review can be completed followed by a further review after about one month.
• After this time, the knowledge will be lodged in the Long Term memory.
• This means it will be familiar in the way a personal telephone number is familiar, needing only the occasional nudge to maintain it.

Conclusion:

It is important to put all the pieces together above and keep doing them until it becomes a habit.  Get started on a physical exercise program, learn a hobby or skill that will keep your memory sharp, like the game of bridge. Make it a habit to focus your attention on something or someone, but the mnemonic methods to use although they may seem childish at first.

And last but not least, if you are really committed to storing some information into Long Term memory, remember to use the review frequency and stick to it because it REALLY WORKS.

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Disclaimer: “Nothing in this article makes any claim to offer cures or treatment of any disease or illness. If you are sick please consult with your doctor.”

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