MamasHealth.com Home Mental Health Information ADHD ADHD Treatments Addicted to bad relationships Antisocial Personality Anxiety Anxiety Help Autism Bipolar Disorder Body Dysmorphic Childhood Depression Borderline Depression Depression in teens Fragile X Syndrome Grief Inpatient Hospitalization Marriage Counseling Medications Memory Obsessive Panic Disorder Peer Pressure Pervasive Developmental Disorder Postpartum Depression Post Traumatic Stress Psychology of Impotence Rett Syndrome Psychotherapy SAD Schizoaffective Disorder Schizophrenia Self-Esteem Separation Anxiety Social Phobia St. John's Wort Teen suicide Treatment options Treatment strategies Trust after an affair Mental Health Medicine Email Mama Finding a psychiatrist Finding a psychologist Psychiatrist vs psychologist Coping with having a Special Ed child How to deal with a Special Ed child Mentally Challenged Child Seriouslly Ill Child Importance of forgiving	How Does the Memory Work? Memory is defined as: the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience; The act or an instance of remembering; recollection. Our 5 Senses (vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell) help us to receive and record information. The recorded information is sorted in our brains. The recorded information becomes our "memory". Types of Memory Short Term Memory is remembering something that you recently saw or heard. An example of short term memory is remembering the color of the car that just passed by you. Short term memory is very brief. It only lasts about 5 seconds. In order to remember the same information at a later time, your brain transfers this information from your Short Term Memory to Long Term Memory. Short Term Memory can be transferred to Long Term Memory by repeating the information, or visualizing it. Long Term Memory contains information that you have recorded in your brain in the past. An example of Long Term Memory is the gift you received for a birthday 5 years ago. Long term memory has no limit on capacity and can store vast amounts of information. Although long term memory always remains intact, sometimes it may take longer to recall information. Sometimes, it becomes very difficult to remember information. Difficulty results from growing older and health conditions. Yoga and Memory Yoga exercises can help improve your memory. Memory and Aging As you get older, you may not be able to remember things as well as you did in your younger years. This is a natural part of again.	Sponsor a contest on MamasHealth.com Sign up for our Email Newsletter For Email Marketing you can trust
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