I got an email from one of my teenagers at the school I visited last. Her question was "How do I develop my brain and be able to recall things. Pondering over this question I realized that a lot of people are going through similar challenge as she and then I thought it wise to share with you. But first I think that it is best we understand what memory lose is, the cause of it and how it can be re-developed.
Memory lose can be define as the inability to reason properly, those who suffer from memory lose find it difficulty to remember things, communicate effectively as cells responsible for transmission of message from the brain to the voice has become dormant as such can not generate information as much as may be expected. This is the reason for some people it is difficult to express themselves, in the sense that trying to communicate a particular message it takes a great effort because the person may be searching for the right word to convey his or her thoughts by so doing the brain takes a longer time to send information or may not even send the information at all, this often occurs during reading, writing and even verbal communication. That is the reason we must know the cells that are very important in message processing in our brains. These Cells are Neurons and Glial Cells, These cells can be dormant if not accessed in a long time.
CAUSES OF MEMORY LOSS.
Memory lose can occur in different ways but I am just going to mention only four ways through which brain lose is sustained. Elizabeth Loftus, one of the world's most renowned experts on human memory, has identified four major reasons why forgetting occurs.
1. Decay of information: This is when we finds it difficulty to retrieve information from the brain, This occurs when memories are rarely accessed causing them to decay overtime.
2. Competition of memories: This occurs as a result of two or more memories competing with each other the lower memories at this point may feel intimidated and as such at the presence of those other memories it may take time to process its thought or idea. It also could be as a result of two things which are identical the memory ends up taking recognition of the more domineering one and as such mistakes it for the lesser one.
3.. Personal decisions to forget things: Most people are sometimes too emotional and as such may decide to forget any thing associating to a situation that did cause ill feelings in their past, this in turn could cause the memory to start rejecting some information. Therefore when ever it has some information instead of appropriate storage it declines those information by not storing them.
1. Continuous assessment of information: In this case try as much as possible to assess what ever information you have, you can do that through constant conversation with people
2. Read Always: Be open to information even if you do not understand what you are reading just keep reading, a day will come when you would realize that it is stored some where in your brain can get hold of it when in need of it.
3. Cramming: Cramming keeps brings back your focus it enables you to pay gross attention to a particular thing without being distracted therefore when you cram if helps you regain your focus.
4. Free your mind: Stop bothering your mind over irrelevant things because by so doing they can prevent the necessary memories from functioning properly.
