Characteristics of memory loss
MEMORY LOSS or AMNESIA is the inability to recall information or personal data. There are different types of memory loss:
- Depending on the type of data that are recalled:
- Lost of immediate memory: The person only can remember during a few seconds the data that just happened.
- Lost of short-term memory: It is possible to remember the facts that occurred before losing the memory for a few minutes or several seconds but not those that occurred subsequent to the memory loss that are not recorded in the mind. (Anterograde amnesia)
- Lost of long-term memory: People can remember for days, months or years what happened after the loss of memory but no data of this loss occurred before (retrograde amnesia)
- Depending on the length of it:
- Permanent memory loss: When one is unable to recover the lost data. For example, in diseases like Alzheimer or dementia produced by strokes.
- Temporary memory loss: When the memory returns to recover after some time. It is very common in mild head trauma, such as falls, blows to the head, etc. There is also in memory loss caused by drugs, metabolic diseases, such as hypoglycemia or diseases of the thyroid , etc. It is very common to express episodes of temporary memory loss during periods of stress, anxiety, worry, then disappears when it gets personal stability.
- Depending on how it develops:
- Gradual memory loss: Memory is lost gradually. Alzheimer's causes gradual memory loss and permanent.
- Abrupt memory loss: When memory loss occurs suddenly. There is, for example, strokes and head injuries (falls, car accidents, etc.) Can cause temporary or permanent loss by damage taken.
- According to the amount of lost data:
- Partial memory loss: When you are able to recall some facts and some do not.
- Total memory loss: When you do not remember anything.
Symptoms of memory loss
Many memory leaks can be actually considered oblivion or neglect and are a common occurrence in many people. For example, is common to forget where you left the car keys. It is also quite frequent to suffer memory losses as a result of ingestion of toxins such as alcohol or barbiturates.
However, it must be considered as signs of significant memory loss when our lack of memory refers to the people we live with or when they occur in a usual manner as the following facts:
- Not knowing what day of the week we met.
- Getting lost in familiar places.
- Place objects in some illogical places.
- Stop doing the routine tasks or stop remembering if you have made. (Stop cleaning yourself, do not remember if the teeth are cleaned)
- Do not remember or have difficulty remembering what has been done throughout the day.
- Not knowing how to deal with decisions that were previously carried out easily.
Causes of memory loss
The main causes that can produce memory loss are the following:
- Physical diseases: Many diseases cause physical loss of memory, for example, Alzheimer's, lack of blood sugar or hypoglycemia, hyperthyroidism, meningitis, encephalitis, cranial tumors, multiple sclerosis, etc.
- Brain Injury: caused by trauma (accidents, strokes, surgery, temporal lobe epilepsy, lack of cerebral irrigation, vascular accident or heart problems, difficult deliveries, etc.).
- Mental Diseases: Among them, we can mention depression or stress. The states of anxiety, strong fear.. Stress or hard emotions increase the adrenalin levels which determines that the brain does not send the information to the memory centers.
Within this group of psychic factors that contribute to reduce the memory, we would have to give special importance to psychological trauma, such as dissociative fugue, in which the person lives an experience so excruciating that the brain itself protects itself protects not leaving the memory to remember what has happened.
- Chemical Poisoning: Toxic chemical substances (mercury, lead, etc) attack the neurons producing their death. Also other toxins such as tobacco, or other drugs. (amphetamines, cocaine, etc., produce the death of these nervous cells, contributing to a significant memory loss. Many medications can cause memory loss. (Barbiturates, anesthetics, etc)
- Alcohol: Alcohol is one of the factors that is normally responsible for lack of memory. This toxic makes absorption of vitamin B1 or thiamin difficult, which is directly responsible for the brain to be able to absorb glucose to function properly. It has been found that a lack of this vitamin causes problems of depression, fatigue, lack of interest or poor mental agility.
- Diet problems: Vitamins of group B are necessary for the health of the nervous system and the mind. A diet deficient in vitamin B, can be responsible for abnormal memory. An unnatural diet containing plenty of phytosanitary products can produce similar results.
- Intellectual Overload: Too much intellectual work, the need for handling or working with too much data can lead to produce gaps in your memory.
- Aging: The aging process, with the consequent loss of neurons, leading to a decreased ability to recall facts and, above all, to a lesser agility to incorporate new data to your memory. In this loss free radicals are very important. Little by little, they exert their action on brain tissues causing progressive degeneration.
Diagnostics and treatment of memory loss
Before the appearance of memory loss for reasons that are not related to aging, a visit to the doctor is recommended so as to diagnose the real causes of this anomaly.
The diagnosis is mainly done through obtaining a thorough history (oral and written interview to assess the state of memory). The doctor will also perform physical tests (blood, tissue analysis, etc.) and neurological (scanner, EEG, MRI, etc) to identify the causes of the disorder.
In most cases, overcoming the physical or mental cases that produced memory problems will lead to a recovery of your memory .
The natural treatment of memory loss is based on a series of natural resources that help improve the patient's memory loss or prevent it.
More information the natural treatment of the problems of memory in the listing above.