How to Prevent Memory Loss?

With age, the speed of transmission of impulses through our nerves slows. Our brains contain ever larger amounts of material to remember. We tend to lose the ability to concentrate as closely on new facts, names and events. Many of items in our memory will not have been remembered recently and thus will be in inactive parts of the brain for retrieval. The sum of all these things results in loss of memory, particularly for recent events. This is, unfortunately, usually ascribed just to “age”. This then becomes a frightening occurrence, resulting in fear that we are losing our minds and becoming senile.

Prevention

The underlying physical processes are not preventable, but most of the manifestations are. Correcting hearing, decreasing medications that affect thinking, using lists to compensate, concentrating on new information by using specific techniques, and a variety of other approaches. You need to exercise your memory.