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Here's How the Brain Makes Memories—and What You Can Do to Keep Your Mind Sharp
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1598" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-brain-makes-memories-keep-170220921.html" target="_blank"><strong>Here's How the Brain Makes Memories—and What You Can Do to Keep Your Mind Sharp - Yahoo</strong></a></p><p></p><p>There’s a popular misconception that memory is like a file box in the brain—that we put away our recollections and then look them up when we need them. But that’s not actually how it works. Scientists suspect memories are stored in diffuse networks of neurons all over the brain; when you remember something, bits of the recollection, scattered around like puzzle pieces on the floor, are gathered up and put back together to make a complete picture.</p><p></p><p>“I think of a memory as a particular firing pattern of brain nerve cells in a network,” says Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD, director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. “If you’re trying to remember a meaningful childhood event, for example, you refire the pattern in the brain that happened when the event took place.”</p><p></p><p>There’s a popular misconception that memory is like a file box in the brain—that we put away our recollections and then look them up when we need them. But that’s not actually how it works. Scientists suspect memories are stored in diffuse networks of neurons all over the brain; when you remember something, bits of the recollection, scattered around like puzzle pieces on the floor, are gathered up and put back together to make a complete picture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1598, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-brain-makes-memories-keep-170220921.html'][B]Here's How the Brain Makes Memories—and What You Can Do to Keep Your Mind Sharp - Yahoo[/B][/URL] There’s a popular misconception that memory is like a file box in the brain—that we put away our recollections and then look them up when we need them. But that’s not actually how it works. Scientists suspect memories are stored in diffuse networks of neurons all over the brain; when you remember something, bits of the recollection, scattered around like puzzle pieces on the floor, are gathered up and put back together to make a complete picture. “I think of a memory as a particular firing pattern of brain nerve cells in a network,” says Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD, director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. “If you’re trying to remember a meaningful childhood event, for example, you refire the pattern in the brain that happened when the event took place.” There’s a popular misconception that memory is like a file box in the brain—that we put away our recollections and then look them up when we need them. But that’s not actually how it works. Scientists suspect memories are stored in diffuse networks of neurons all over the brain; when you remember something, bits of the recollection, scattered around like puzzle pieces on the floor, are gathered up and put back together to make a complete picture. [/QUOTE]
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