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Memory is one of the main functions of the human brain and is the result of synaptic connections (chemical electrical discharges) between neuronsThese being the ones responsible for the human being to retain situations that developed in the past. This is the beginning of memories, when neurons integrated in an efficient circuit reinforce the intensity of the synapse. The differential feature of human memory is the power to travel to the past and also to plan the future.

And to demonstrate the monster of storage which can become memory, thanks to the fact that one has already taken the trouble to calculate it, story that human memory that works well could store a mega library, since the result gave that a good memory is equivalent to 20 million volumes of books.

There are various exercises to strengthen memory, and one of them is the reading, writing or even when we study many materials for the school or university. That is one of the best ways to avoid future memory loss problems in adulthood. But of course, many times we get old and in any case we begin to experience failures when remembering names, dates, or simply where we leave the house keys. For this, it is very good that the mental exercise speeds up: playing games like sudoku puzzles, word searches or the famous “memory games”.

Memory can be classified into short-term and long-term memoryThis will depend on the excitation frequency of the synapse, whether it is transient or permanent. In short-term memory we store all those daily events of our life, which we need to remember for a certain period of time, but which is relatively short or very short. For example, remembering what we have to buy in the supermarket or memorizing a sequence in a game. Instead, long-term memory is related to events or milestones in our lives that have marked our existence, for better or for worse and that, in one way or another, are significant. For example, our graduation from school, our first job, a vacation on foreign beaches, etc.

One of the main contents of memory, carefully filed and classified inside, are memories, also known as images from the past that help us remember someone or something that happened to us at that time. Memories are also often the product of things that we lived or learned. So, memory and experience they will make a joint effort so that later we can make use of them.

Although without a doubt, in many circumstances memory is usually a good tool when making decisions, since it allows to remember certain data that when put into practice help to promote good results, in many others, it is not usually as productive or positive, for example, in the case of certain sad or traumatic memories that that giant of information storage that is memory, sometimes insists on remembering instead of forgetting, and which unfortunately many people cannot escape generating, in the best of cases depression, and in the worst (and most extreme) until the break with the reality.

The pharmaceutical industry, with its inexhaustible advances, has also taken into account the problems of memory loss or deficiencies, and that is why in the market of medications today we can find multiple "remedies" or drugs aimed at improving memory, precisely optimizing and benefiting the process of synapse.

Although of course, despite this detail that can be treated in therapy and overcome, it will always be better if we have to complain about our excellent memory than about a bad one.