How Can YOU Improve Your Memory?
Tips to improve Memory - Memory Project by Ashlea Evans
MEMORY
The way the human body works is truly mind-blowing. One of the most interesting parts of the human body to me would be memory. Memory is what stores everything you've ever learned, experienced, or thought of. The research done over human's memory may lead to cures to diseases involving memory, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease. My research done today may help me in learning more about the human brain's memory process and how memory is stored and what we are able to do to improve our memory.
THE HUMAN BRAIN -
The human brain holds memories like a library stocks books. The brain's most important part when it comes to memory is the hippocampus. The hippocampus has the most responsibility, it controls the new releases of short-term memory while putting materials for the permanent collection of long-term memory in order. Different kinds of memory are stored in different areas of the brain, not just the hippocampus.
↓ TIPS FOR IMPROVING MEMORY ↓
REDUCE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Too much drinking deteriorates the memory, as most are familiar of not remembering the night before when too much alcohol was consumed. Parts of DUI tests have shown how overconsumption of alcohol can immediately affect the brain. Alcohol abuse will have a negative effect on the cells of the brain related to memory.
SEEK TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION
Anything that causes major stress in life, including anxiety or anger, will eventually deteriorate the parts of the brain that are responsible for memory. Depression is often not identified as a memory problem even though one of the main symptoms of the condition is not being able to concentrate. If you can't concentrate on schoolwork or something at work, then you may feel as if you're constantly forgetting things.
GET MOVING
Exercise not only exercises the body but the mind as well. Obesity is a risk factor for many diseases and conditions that eventually weaken parts of the brain, leading to possible strokes and diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
Patient HM
MEMORY EXPERIMENT: PATIENT HM
William Beecher Scoville, a psychologist and neurosurgeon, removed a patient's hippocampus, the part of the brain the contains most of the memory, in order to stop the patient's epileptic seizures. In the surgeon's success, Henry Molaison was able to live life without having seizures constantly, but would no longer be able to remember anything for the rest of his life.
INTERESTING FACTS
1. Memory based on what you saw vs. what you hear is called visual and auditory memory.
2. The storage capacity of the human brain is limitless.
3. The average adult is capable of remembering 50,000-100,000 words.
4. Your memory can associate with a specific smell or song.
WORKS CITED -
http://www.theceugroup.com/12-surprising-human-memory-facts/
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/8-get-moving/
http://brainconnection.brainhq.com/2013/03/12/how-we-remember-and-why-we-forget/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKP6tBhM2T4
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/trouble-in-mind/201201/hm-the-man-no-memory