Memory loss

How To Avoid An All-Nighter “Don 't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night” by Steven Wright. We all have pulled an all-nighter; Us college students, Professors, people who works and have paper work to do, people who are fixing something, people who has a career, etc. What are the reasons? Sometimes it’s just us when were lazy or got a lot of stuff to do or for college students, work is on the way. Unfortunately this will happen to every person once or multiple…

Memory represents a person’s perception of self and identity. Reflecting on past memories and experiences allows a person to recognize who he or she is and where he or she came from. In the novel, Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan, a disease known as anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis inflames Cahalan’s brain, inducing cognitive deficiencies such as hallucinations, paranoia, and slurred speech. Cahalan refers to her hospital stay as her “month of madness” because these symptoms…

Naïve Realism and Amnesia Naïve realism is the belief that we see the world exactly as it is, without objective or bias from influence of upbringing. Consequentially, naïve realism can pose an important problem when judging appearances as well as evaluating the objectives and biases of ourselves and those around us. For instance, if one was out in public with their partner, they may both exhibit different levels of comfort with reagrds to public affection without realizing that they most…

interferes with remembering old information already stored in the long term memory (LTM). An example of this would be if an individual were to call his/her ex-girlfriend/boyfriend the new boyfriend/girlfriend’s name. This example shows that the recent name retroactively interferes with the previous name, which is evidently problematic for recall. b. A distorted or false memory is a contrived remembrance of an event. This type of memory occurs when components from different experiences are…

Often overlooked, are the stories that follow the story of a mental hero’s journey, one that involves obstacles challenging to the mind. Glimmer, a realistic fiction novel, tells the story of Elyse and Marshall as they attempt to recover their lost memories and save their town from an evil occultist. The 347 page novel by Phoebe Kitanidis follows the pattern of the hero’s journey in both a mental and physical form as multiple events in the story match the steps in the hero’s journey. One of the…

themselves, not being able to take care of themselves, and sometimes not remembering things that were once so vivid in their mind. Out of all of these things memory loss tends to scare people the most. The thought of looking into their loved ones eyes and not being able to recognize them is enough to put anyone on edge. What makes us lose our memory, are we getting old, or is it Alzheimer’s? Doctors have been studying the disease for years. They now know more ways to diagnose the disease, treat…

There are four different types of amnesia, Anterograde amnesia which is when you can’t form new memories due to head trauma, Retrograde amnesia which is a loss of pre-existing memories, Lacunar amnesia which is a loss of memory of a specific event, and Childhood amnesia which is a common inability to remember events from childhood. In the film Memento, we meet Leonard Shelby or Lenny, who has an exaggerated form of anterograde amnesia. Lenny is on a mission to kill John G. because he believes…

Mental Exercises To Improve Your Memory Overview The brains strength and potency determines the efficiency of its memory. There are numerous activities involving the brain one can undertake to improve memory. The brain can be enhanced through this activity at any age due to its ability to change and adapt even to old age, inability known as neuroplasticity. When stimulated correctly, your brain can form new neural paths, change the existing connections and adopt react in an ever changing way.…

tangles on both the inside and outside neurons while damage dendritic spines, decrease synaptic input and decrease plasticity. As the plaques accumulates the damages spreads to the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, which is responsible for forming memories. As the neurons die in large numbers the affected regions of the brain begin to shrink (Biological). Alzheimer’s can also be inherited. If your mother or father had Alzheimer’s it is more than likely that you have the apolipoprotein E and are…

adults’ memory and improve cognition? Whether they have Alzheimer’s disease or they just have memory issue, it’s been researched that certain vitamins and herbs could protect older adults from memory loss (Ashpari, 2014). Nutritional supplementation can ply a role in improving our memory. According to Harris, Elizabeth, et al that “Nutritional and vitamin status may be related to cognitive function and decline in older adults”. However, some vitamins are more important for older adults memory…