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"6 Habits To Improve Your Memory and Boost Your Brain Health, Susan Steinbrecher

Here are the six brain-boosting habits Chapman (founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas and author of Make Your Brain Smarter) recommends:

1. Limit multitasking.

Multitasking diminishes mental productivity, elevates brain fatigue and increases stress.

2. Get an adequate amount of sleep.

Make sure you regularly get seven-to-eight hours of sleep. Information is consolidated in the brain at a deeper level of understanding during sleep.

3. Commit to an exercise routine.

Get 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three to four times a week, to improve memory and increase attention and concentration and brain blood flow in the brain-memory area.

4. Construct bottom-line messages.

Summarize your task-assignment reading, training seminars, articles, movies you see or books read. Abstracting novel ideas, versus remembering a litany of facts, builds a brain with an enhanced long-term memory for global ideas and the ability to retrieve fundamental facts.

5. Laser-focus on important tasks.

Block out information that is relatively unimportant. Limiting the intake of information is a key brain function associated with brain health.

6. Stay motivated.

A motivated brain builds faster and more robust neural connections. Identify your passions and learn more about them."....

Please, see the link....

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252911

Dear Mr Tahir , ME first this time !!!!!!!!

Does this mean science is that obvious and is a universal religion all of us follow ? ! without which we are just monkeys :)

I used tell my students & co-volunteers especially working with kids, "Brain is irreversible"  (in a positive way) may be clinically also !!!!

Improving capacity is again left to us. I would :

1. Practice remembering (not using phone).

2. Try learning stuff

3. Try changing habits (not toooo much)

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"6 Habits To Improve Your Memory and Boost Your Brain Health, Susan Steinbrecher

Here are the six brain-boosting habits Chapman (founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas and author of Make Your Brain Smarter) recommends:

1. Limit multitasking.

Multitasking diminishes mental productivity, elevates brain fatigue and increases stress.

2. Get an adequate amount of sleep.

Make sure you regularly get seven-to-eight hours of sleep. Information is consolidated in the brain at a deeper level of understanding during sleep.

3. Commit to an exercise routine.

Get 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three to four times a week, to improve memory and increase attention and concentration and brain blood flow in the brain-memory area.

4. Construct bottom-line messages.

Summarize your task-assignment reading, training seminars, articles, movies you see or books read. Abstracting novel ideas, versus remembering a litany of facts, builds a brain with an enhanced long-term memory for global ideas and the ability to retrieve fundamental facts.

5. Laser-focus on important tasks.

Block out information that is relatively unimportant. Limiting the intake of information is a key brain function associated with brain health.

6. Stay motivated.

A motivated brain builds faster and more robust neural connections. Identify your passions and learn more about them."....

Please, see the link....

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252911

Dear Hazim et all,

To improve our memory we have to exercice it , repeat things, making associations.

Have a nice time

Helena

In the following link, some scientific results on memory improvement strategies are summarized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_improvement

Attach or map  some important items, persons you love, you remember for ever , to the things that you need to memorize. This is one of the simple ways  which I practice, I have rewarding experiences.

Science has two faces-good and bad. It depends on us which face we want to see. If we use the gifts of science in positive direction with positive intention then it will provide us with sweet results but if we use it in the wrong way the results will definitely be bitter. To save ourselves and the world as a whole from destruction, we should follow the right way to use the gifts of science so that it appears as a blessing and not as a curse.

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" EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN FOR OPTIMAL MEMORY TRAINING

• Exercise your working memory
• Break down long items into smaller pieces.
• Play games that focus on handling information quickly and correctly.
• Provide yourself with different forms of stimulation throughout the day.
• Keep a handle on your stress levels, using the advice from the previous chapter.

Working out your recall

• Practice active listening during class.
• When you study your notes, introduce various review techniques.
• Make meaningful use of flash cards.
• Study regularly and often—but not always for long periods.
• Keep your brain fueled."....

Please, see the link for more detail...

https://www.howtostudy.com/exercise-your-brain-for-optimal-memory-training/

7 Lifestyle-Based Ways to Improve Your Memory

---Eat Right. The foods you eat – and don't eat – play a crucial role in your memory. ...

---Exercise. ...

---Stop Multitasking. ...

---Get a Good Night's Sleep. ...

---Play Brain Games. ...

---Master a New Skill. ...

---Try Mnemonic Devices

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/04/.../memory-improvement-tricks.aspx

A Hollywood film, Still Alice, depict the problem of losing memory very well.  I strongly urge you to read the book and see the film, in whatever order you like. Julianne Moore,s, artistry is amazing.

When memory loss sets in, you forget first the nouns, followed by adverbs, adjectives and then verbs. You are left only pronounces and odd nouns.

The following is taken Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Alice

Still Alice is a 2014 American film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on Lisa Genova's 2007 bestselling novel of the same name. The film stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia University, celebrates her 50th birthday with her physician husband John and three adult children. After she forgets a word during a lecture and becomes lost during a jog on campus, Alice's doctor diagnoses her with early onset familial Alzheimer's disease. Alice's eldest daughter, Anna, tests positive for the Alzheimer's gene. Anna's unborn twins test negative, as does Alice's son Tom. Alice's younger daughter, aspiring actress Lydia, decides not to be tested.

As Alice's memory begins to fade, she daydreams of her mother and sister, who died in a car crash when she was a teenager. She memorizes words and sets a series of personal questions on her phone, which she answers every morning. She hides sleeping pills in her room, and records a video message instructing her future self to commit suicide with the pills when she can no longer answer the questions. As her disease advances, she becomes unable to give focused lectures and loses her job. She becomes lost searching for the bathroom in her own home and wets herself, and does not recognize Lydia after seeing her perform in a play.

Alice begins to have difficulty answering her phone questions. She loses the phone, causing her anxiety; John finds it a month later in the freezer, but Alice thinks it was only missing for a day. She visits Anna in the hospital to meet her newborn twin grandchildren, but does not recognize her daughter.

After a video call with Lydia, Alice inadvertently opens the video with the suicide instructions. With some difficulty, she finds the pills and is about to swallow them, but when she is interrupted by the arrival of her caregiver she drops the pills on the floor, quickly forgetting her suicide plan.

3 strategies to improve memory:

1.     Metacognition: awareness of our own knowledge of the world and ourselves in order to strategically plan how and why to act and behave.  Metacognition allows us to regulate our learning and have control of our memory.

2.    Prior knowledge: the activation of what we know about the world helps us to constantly make connetions and association with the past. So it helps to keep memory working.

3.    Activation of  schema (schemata, pl): “The building blocks of cognition"(Rumelhat). This activity helps us to organized  the mental representation (framework based on past experience) in the form of organizes patterns of thought we have about the world, and integrate  them into new models so that  some cathegories of the schema can be reaccomodated. When a schema becomes activated, the memory has to work remembering all its branches (parts, cathegories)  and making them change as fas as it progresses.

https://biolawgy.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/rumelhart-d-e-1980-schemata-the-building-blocks-of-cognition-in-r-j-spiro-etal-eds-theoretical-issues-in-reading-comprehension-hillsdale-nj-lawrence-erlbaum/

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

                                                                                  ------   Antoine Rivarol

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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

                                                                  ------    Philip Wylie

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This is another interesting article relating to the thread:

"8 ways to improve your memory

1) Stop multitasking

2) Write by hand

3) Nap

4) Take regular tech-breaks

5) Chew gum

6) Take exercise

7) Meditate

8) Seek variety and challenge"...

Please, see the link for more detail...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/better/lifestyle/8-ways-to-improve-your-memory/

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"7 common causes of forgetfulness

Memory slips are aggravating, frustrating, and sometimes worrisome. When they happen more than they should, they can trigger fears of looming dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

There are many mundane—and treatable—causes of forgetfulness. Here are seven common ones.

Please, see the link for detail....

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/7-common-causes-of-forgetfulness-201302225923

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"Study Reveals Surprising Link Between Stress And Memory Loss

When we are in survival mode, optimal amounts of cortisol — commonly known as the stress hormone — can be life saving. But abnormally high or prolonged spikes in cortisol — like what happens when we are constantly stewing over a problem — can lead to serious health issues such as weight gain, digestive troubles and high blood pressure.

Now a new study out of the University of Iowa has discovered a possible link between stress hormones and short-term memory loss in older adults. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, revealed that having elevated levels of cortisol — a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands — can result in memory lapses as we grow older.

In this study, researchers linked high amounts of cortisol to the gradual loss of synapses in the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain that houses short-term memory. Synapses are the connections that help us process, store and recall information. And when we get older, repeated and long-term exposure to cortisol can cause them to shrink and disappear.

“Stress hormones are one mechanism that we believe leads to weathering of the brain,” Jason Radley, assistant professor in psychology, said in a press release. Like a rock on the shoreline, after years and years it will eventually break down and disappear.

While previous studies have shown cortisol to do the same in other regions of the aging brain, this was the first study to examine its impact on the pre-frontal cortex.

And although preliminary, the findings raise the possibility that a person’s short-memory decline may be slowed or prevented by decreasing levels of cortisol, Radley added. That could mean treating people who have naturally high levels of cortisol — such as those who are depressed or experiencing stress due to a traumatic event.

According to Radley and Rachel Anderson, the paper’s lead author, short-term memory lapses related to cortisol start around age 65. That’s about the equivalent of 21-month-old rats, which the pair studied to make their discovery.

Still, researchers say it’s important to remember that stress hormones represent only one factor when it comes to mental decline and memory loss as we age.

For example, a study out of the University of California found that sleep deprivation is connected with brain degeneration and memory loss in older adults.

When it comes to middle-aged men, another study found that those who drink more than two and a half drinks per day are likely to show signs of memory loss and cognitive decline up to six years sooner than men who are light drinkers or who don’t drink."....

Please, see the link....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/stress-hormones-and-memory-loss_n_5503444.html

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Here are few fruit that help to recover the memory problem:

Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.

                                                                         ----   David H. Murdock

Generally, information is reproduced more accurately in time if storage was associated with an emotion and with reporting to ourselves. Unfortunately, memory is not carving in stone, but the writing on the sand...

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"Not till the very evening they came," answered he, and then told of his dealings with Mehrunes Dagon's thralls, saying that Mackkan would find it easier to whistle on the wind's tracks and go on a fool's errand than to fight his toads. Then said Mackkan:

"Now see to thy safety henceforward,

And stick to thy parts and thy pride;

Or this mallet of mine, Malacath's Scourge,

Will meet with thine ear of a surety.

For quick as I can cry "Equality",

Though eight arms thou couldst boast of,

Such bumps thou shalt comb on thy brainpan,

Thou that breakest the howes of the dead.

EXPLICATION: The mace Scourge, Blessed of Malacath, Mackkan's legendary weapon, forged from sacred ebony in the Fountains of Fickledire, has ever been the bane of the Dark Kin, and many a black spirit has been hurled back into Oblivion with a single blow of this bold defender of the friendless. Scourge now hangs within the armory of Battlespire, ready to take up in the name of the Emperor against the Daedric Lords.

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It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

                                                                          -----  David Brooks

"Not till the very evening they came," answered he, and then told of his dealings with Mehrunes Dagon's thralls, saying that Mackkan would find it easier to whistle on the wind's tracks and go on a fool's errand than to fight his toads. Then said Mackkan:

"Now see to thy safety henceforward,

And stick to thy parts and thy pride;

Or this mallet of mine, Malacath's Scourge,

Will meet with thine ear of a surety.

For quick as I can cry "Equality",

Though eight arms thou couldst boast of,

Such bumps thou shalt comb on thy brainpan,

Thou that breakest the howes of the dead.

EXPLICATION: The mace Scourge, Blessed of Malacath, Mackkan's legendary weapon, forged from sacred ebony in the Fountains of Fickledire, has ever been the bane of the Dark Kin, and many a black spirit has been hurled back into Oblivion with a single blow of this bold defender of the friendless. Scourge now hangs within the armory of Battlespire, ready to take up in the name of the Emperor against the Daedric Lords.

good greeting

This is true

It is one of the commandments recommended by the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, who recommended Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

 Dear Doctor Hazim

Thank you for this beautiful question

One of the treatments for this is to continue reading to strengthen the memory and also must take the body enough sleep

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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

                                                 ----  Horace Greeley 

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The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

                                                           ----  Alfred A. Montapert