![]() ![]() Noble: There is a tendency for saying once somebody has a thinking or memory problem, or once somebody’s of an age to have a thinking and memory problem, that we can in fact reduce somebody’s risk of developing subsequent problems. It’s involving language circuits, visual-spatial circuits, kind of sensory integration circuits of how do I hold and swing and what’s the, what’s the feel of that hammer in my hand?įaith: How can we take care of our memory? What, what can we do to preserve the memory we have?ĭr. And then in another area of our brain might even know, well, what do those things do? What’s the function of that hammer and nail? Well, it’s to fasten something together, and all of those things come together along with the idea of “I want to hammer and nail something together” so that that memory, it’s not just like something is just remembered, it’s your brain is engaging multiple areas of your brain. We, in order to remember how to use that, we might think back to a project that we did some years ago that involved a hammer and a nail, or our brain might be accessing some information in part of our language centers that says that’s a hammer and that’s a nail as we pick it up. Well, let’s say for instance, I gave an example a moment ago about hammer and a nail. Can you describe to us what is going on in our brain when memory is at work?ĭr. It’s the process of putting together something, something we may have learned along the way.įaith: So we’ve learned there are lots of kinds of memories. That is the ability for us to do things like, you know, use a hammer and a nail. But by and large, we begin to think about things in kind of broader events rather than, uh, you know, finite sentences or conversations that are held.Īnd then there’s procedural memory. Maybe we can remember certain conversations if they were really important to us. You know, we have general ideas of what happened to us. So the same circuits that were involved in laying down information about that conversation you had, you know, just a half an hour ago, are involved as a first step in laying down information that stays with you for years.Īs we know, that information becomes less and less discreet over time. What was the conversation I had with my colleague a half an hour ago?” For your capacity to not just remember that it happened, but the details of that conversation.Īnd then we can think about more long-term memory, which is, you know, things that happened to us from long ago. And so that’s the circuit that begins to get involved when we think, “Okay. There is a key area in the brain called the hippocampus, which is essential for laying down new memories and getting them to last. And when we think about long-term storage, we can define that as being on the order of minutes or months or years. ![]() There is, another form of memory where we think about it being something that has to be or begins to involve long-term storage. What is it that I’m doing right now that I just was thinking about? That’s a kind of an in the moment memory, working memory. ![]() We walk into a room and we say, “Oh, gosh, what was I doing? I was coming in here for something.” My coffee cup or something like that. This is where somebody walks into a room, happens to all of us. There’s a problem with memory that many of us experience that now has a name called Doorway Memory. Sometimes we think about memory kind of being in the moment. Noble: Memory can be defined many different ways. ![]() Thanks for having me.įaith: From a cognitive standpoint, what exactly is memory?ĭr. He also breaks down memory disorders and the differences between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.įaith: Hi Dr. He shared insights about how memory works, how it may change as we age - and how people can take care of their memory. James Noble, a neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia. So when does memory loss become a more serious issue? We’ve all experienced forgetful moments, but for some of us, they can become more common as we age. Welcome to Health Matters – your weekly dose of the latest in health and wellness from NewYork-Presbyterian. ![]()
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