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Do You F*cking Mind?

95. How we form memories, false memories and ways to improve your memory

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9914 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about the different kinds of memory. Working memory, long term memory, how memories are formed, stored and retrieved. What false memories are and how they come about and how to improve your own memory consolidation and retrieval.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody and welcome to today's episode, which is going to be all about memory.

0:04.6

I'm going to talk about how memories are formed, how false memories are formed,

0:09.4

memory consolidation, the difference between short-term working memory, long-term memory,

0:14.6

what happens when you get certain lesions or, you know, maybe seizures or certain accidents

0:20.8

and what occurs to your memory and also

0:22.9

with also with neurodegeneration in the brain. And also at the very end, I'm going to touch on ways

0:26.9

that you can actually improve your memory. So it's all about memory. Now, I'm not going to go

0:32.4

into my week that was none of that. I'm just going to go straight in today's episode. It is more of like a deep dive into that one topic.

0:39.7

And I think it's going to be super interesting because I've dived into memory in like

0:44.1

snippets here and there on my brain facts and this and that.

0:47.0

But I think it's kind of cool to do a whole episode on it because I think that memory

0:53.8

forms who you are as a person. It's your life. It makes up

0:58.9

your personality. It makes up your history. It makes up how you respond to situations and how

1:03.9

you act. So if there's ever an opportunity for you to work on preserving your memory or

1:08.4

improving your memory, you want to fucking take it with both

1:11.4

hands because your life will get better when your memory gets better. Loss of memory is one of the

1:16.7

major causes of stress and depression. So pay attention. Let's work on improving your memory.

1:24.0

Let's be conscious about it. Let's do something about it. And you are going to

1:28.4

feel more excited about life, happier about life and just happier in general. Okay, cool,

1:33.3

beans. Let's get into it. So there's been a few interesting studies that have been done on memory and

1:38.2

not just a few. We're talking a fuck ton of very interesting studies that have been done. And there's

1:42.8

one really interesting study just

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