| According to the psychologists, we tend to forget | | | | days. |
| the things that we actually want to forget. But this is | | | | Now as you progress in your age, the pattern of |
| not always the case. Sometimes we can not | | | | information storage of your brain also starts changing |
| remember things that we ought to. Like the other | | | | and it gradually becomes more difficult to recall |
| day I was not being able to recall where I placed the | | | | stored information. As you reach the age of twenty, |
| duplicate key of the house. With clenched teeth and | | | | your brain starts to lose some of its cells and the |
| closed eyes I desperately kept on searching in my | | | | body also does not produce the chemicals needed |
| mind where I could possibly placed it for the utmost | | | | for brain work in the same amount as before. These |
| safekeeping when my younger daughter accidentally | | | | changes affect the ways how you remember the |
| bumped on it behind a volume of Encyclopedia | | | | things and the older you are, the more they affect |
| Britannica on the book shelf. And it was inevitably | | | | your memory. While the short-term and remote |
| followed by a roll of laughter and joking comments | | | | memories remain unaffected by aging, recent |
| on my poor ability to remember the mundane things. | | | | memories may sometime betray you. As for |
| Forgetfulness is often viewed in the light of fun in | | | | example, at certain age we often tend to forget |
| the movies, in the story books and in our social | | | | names of people we've met recently. Well, do not |
| interactions. But it may not always be as innocent as | | | | get panicked, these are only normal changes. |
| you think it to be. Little incidences involving | | | | However, there may be some other causes than |
| forgetfulness which we shake off by laughing over it | | | | aging that may cause memory loss and they include |
| may actually be the indication of some complex | | | | depression, brain injury, effects of alcohol, illnesses, |
| problems of loss of memory. So you should no longer | | | | dementia, Alzheimer's disease and side effects of |
| neglect this problem if you feel it is taking a serious | | | | drugs. |
| turn and address it adequately to know whether | | | | So how do you differentiate between a normal |
| there is any disorder taking place in your brain. Here | | | | memory loss and serious one? Well, memory loss |
| are some information that may help you to | | | | may be the cause of alarm when it significantly |
| understand the relation between our brain and | | | | disrupts your daily life. Forgetting names or words are |
| memory. | | | | just fine, but you should take alarm if you forget |
| Our brain has this amazing ability to store information | | | | such things as a recipe that you have tried many a |
| in different parts of our memory. Memory can be | | | | times before, or can not recall how to get to a place |
| classified into short term, long term or recent | | | | that you frequently visit and so on. |
| memories. The brain can store the information for a | | | | Remember, serious problems related to memory loss |
| long time. As for instance just dive down into the | | | | get worse over a short time. So if you feel, you are |
| remote memory lane and you are sure to find out | | | | suffering from some memory related problems that |
| the pieces of pictures associated with your childhood | | | | are not usual, see a doctor immediately. |