The Amazing Brain Introduction: Brain is the most amazing creation. Brain is the engine of human machine.

Brian controls every activity of our body by its peculiar mechanism. Understanding the memory storage system of brain will help to improve the memory power. Encoding: Encoding the information is the first step to store information in brain as a memory. Our sensory organs such as eye, ear, tongue, nose and skin are collecting the information from the surrounding and passes to the Brain. If you see any person first time, our eye sense their physical feature such as their face, colour, height our ear will sense their voice and send it to it to our brain. This is called perception process. These information passes through the nerve cells (neurons) and making new connection between neurons by synapse. When electro chemical signal passes via neurons, this synapse formed in the gap of two neurons. While you are repeating the same information to the brain for exp, by seeing the same person again and again, this link (synapse) between neurons gets stronger and that persons face, voice, and other feature stored in our long term memory. Each information or memories has their own synapse. Hippocampus is one of the parts of our brain which integrate the information and analysis them with the help of frontal cortex. Here memories are filtered in the basis of important memories and regular unimportant memories. That is why we are unable to remembering the small small activities which we have done from the morning to night. If you want to store any information permanently in your brain , you have to register or encode that information strongly in your brain. It can be done by the reputation of the information.

Storing in brain: There are three type of storing process occurs in our brain. Sensory Short term storing Long term storing.

Sensory memory can stay only for fraction of seconds. Example, If you hear any voice first time, that can stay only fraction of second and you cannot recognize in second time. Short term memory can stay for 20-30 seconds. If you hear any phone number first time and you are not repeating the number in your mind, it will stay for few seconds. Long term memory can stay till your brain functions properly. Only thing you need to do is remembering that memories regularly to make the connection between neurons strong. If you are not think about one information for long days , that information will start erase from your memory because the connections between nerve cells(neurons) getting weak. Retrieving the memories: While retrieving any information from your memories, you are getting that through the nerve cells connection (synapse). If it is weak, retrieving that information will be difficult. This is what we are calling forgetting. There are following reasons for forgetting

Information not encoded properly (EX. Reading wit out concentration on your subjects) Information not repeated several times. (EX. reading again and again). To overcome this, be concentrated while you reading, listening or encoding any information to your brain. Repeat the reading and remember that regularly to memorise easily and strongly. Aging and Memory loss: Our human brain has 100 billion neurons. At the age of 3 they will be matured and this is the age in which human beings having most number of neurons. I heard that 3 years old baby will have the capacity to learn 0 languages. This is the reason for that. While aging, especially after 20s, our brain started to lose the neurons slowly. They cannot multiply and when a person reaches 80 years old, there will be about 20% loss in the total number of neurons which were at age 3. This is one reason for our memory loss, but the main reason for forgetting is that during old ages our activities are less and we are not using our brain more as comparatively with young age. Usage of the brain is less, so the connections between neurons (synapses) disappearing results in memory loss or forgetting. If you keep your brain active and giving more tasks to brain, you will be clever even at 80s. By

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