Is it possible to have a good long-term memory but a bad short-term memory?!
Question: because that seems to be the case with me. This morning when I woke up I remembered something that I read in a magazine MANY years ago. I don't know why -- it simply popped into my mind. Yet, I usually can't remember what I did during the last few days.
Is there a way to improve one's short-term memory? Like taking a certain vitamin or supplement?
Answers: because that seems to be the case with me. This morning when I woke up I remembered something that I read in a magazine MANY years ago. I don't know why -- it simply popped into my mind. Yet, I usually can't remember what I did during the last few days.
Is there a way to improve one's short-term memory? Like taking a certain vitamin or supplement?
It is definitely possible. Different areas of the brain are involved in each type of memory. This is why sometimes people with certain types of brain injury can completely lose one type of memory but not the other.
There is a process to get information into long term memory. I don't know enough about it to give specific advice, but I do know that if you take the time to notice whatever it is you want to remember, it helps. (For example, I've learned that when I put my keys down, I need to stop, take 5 seconds to look at them and say to myself "the keys are on the kitchen table"...and it makes a huge difference for me...I rarely lose them now. But it only works when I pause and take notice.)
The more you think about whatever it is, the more it is to get into long term memory.
yes, it's possible to have good long-term memory and poor short-term memory, and yes, there are ways to improve your short-term memory, but without pills. Look online for tips.
Yes. The short term memory is the first to go
It is very possible. I have worked with beginning alzheimers sufferers over the past ten years. One will tell fantastic stories of life when they worked at an icehouse and delivered on a model T ford truck before WWII and then proceed to argue with me that I did not check his insulin or he already ate when it is not the case.
If this memory loss keeps up see your doctor. A good mulitvitamin, under the tongue vitamin b-complex and something to improve blood flow such as a baby aspirin or ginko biloba supplements may help.
the short term memory is the first to go!!! there are mind exercises to help the synapses fire in the brain to improve brain function. a complex B vitamin is a great one to increase brain function.
oh, and if you smoke i would slow down it will only make it worse. lol. trust me. ;)