In people over 40 years of age, memory deteriorates. How to improve memory and attention without drugs

And How? I ask.

* Without a weekly as without hands?!

* To the store strictly with a list, so as not to forget to buy something?

* If you didn’t write it down, then surely you will forget to do it?

* Poorly remember numbers, names, important dates of loved ones?

* Do you often find yourself in awkward situations because of your forgetfulness?

* Do you want to improve your memory, but you can't get your hands on it?

Then this article will be very useful to you, because. it outlines just three simple and quick ways to better remember.

Although studies show that after the age of 25 memory deteriorates, we are optimists and we know that with the right approach, nothing is impossible.

The easiest way to train your memory with numbers is to memorize the numbers of passing cars. This game can be played with a child, thereby training his memory. And you can bet with your friends that you can't go wrong with at least 10 cars. You just need to practice first.

Memorizing a list of numbers is very similar to memorizing a list of words: For memorization, an image corresponding to the first digit is taken, an association is created with the image corresponding to the second digit. Then the second and third images are connected and so on until the end of the list. This method can be used to remember phone numbers, dates, prices, etc. Let's use this technique as an example. Please note that you may use your own image system when creating.

Example of memorizing a numeric list:

Let it be necessary to remember the following sequence of numbers:

9 - 2 - 8 - 6 - 2 - 5 - 3 - 6 - 8 - 1

For this chain, you can make the following chain of associations.

The elephant was blocked by Goose (2) looking through binoculars (8) with a padlock (6). The goose ran along the road until it ran into an anchor in the middle of the road. Passing by the anchor, the goose caught the binoculars on the lock, with which the anchor was chained to the post.

Acting in a similar way, you can memorize rows of numbers.

Exercise number 3 (the most difficult):

If memorizing 20 words using the associative method is not difficult, then 10 digits can already create problems. The way out of this situation is to use a system called "Big Account". Its essence is that the image used for encoding corresponds not to one digit, but to two.

Training begins at the second stage of mastering the "Big System". The meaning of the training is to bring to automatism the skill of turning a two-digit number into a clear image. The most important thing is not to memorize "BS-100", but to try to instantly reproduce associations "without peeping".

There are several options (this is one of them):

00 - cobra (reminiscent of the pattern on her hood); glasses; midnight (on an electronic clock);

01 - fire truck (here you can see its bright red color, hear the deafening roar of the siren); more compact images are a fire extinguisher or a fire hose. You can imagine a firefighter, and to enhance the expressiveness of the image, imagine a fireman from the 19th century, in a copper helmet and with the same copper mustache;

02 - in order not to abuse the images of special vehicles with sirens, imagine some police paraphernalia: a baton, a baton, handcuffs. The images of “national policemen” cope well with mnemonic tasks: Uncle Styopa, Major Tomin or your own district police officer (unless, of course, you ever had to see him);

03 - first aid kit, syringe and other medical paraphernalia. You can imagine a doctor in a white coat and a phonendoscope around his neck. The “impressive” and easily voiced image is the former ambulance doctor Alexander Rosenbaum;

04 - gas cylinder (try to feel the smell, having found which you need to call this number, hear the hiss of the escaping gas);

05 - half a liter; half-liter bottle (its content depends on your preferences);

06 - let's use the letter code - Zero Six - N W: Put some heavy load on the burden (a backpack that pulls your shoulders or a large suitcase without a handle, which, as you know, is hard to carry ...);

07 - Bond. James Bond... Imagine superspy 007, or rather any actor who played this role: the unsurpassed Sean Connery, the aristocratic Timothy Dalton, the ironically imperturbable Roger Moore or the gloomy Pierce Brosnan;

08 - graphic association - fan. Association from the letter code - ZERO EIGHT - BUT VOS: News (imagine the most "charismatic presenter of any information program);

09 - telephone information: "telephone lady" in headphones, sitting at the console with multi-colored lights;

10 - heavy gold chervonets; two hands (ten fingers);

11 - skis, palisade, fence;

12 - calendar (twelve months); a bright moon in a dark sky;

13 - Satan (devil's dozen); Woland; Mephistopheles;

15 - FIFteen: Spot - Canterville Ghost; Friday on Robinson Crusoe Island;

16 - in the table of correspondences by O. Stepanov, the number 16 is dedicated to men, they are invited to present a pood weight. From myself I propose an image especially for women - Romeo;

17 - Stirlitz: for domestic viewers, the number 17 evokes an instant association - "Seventeen Moments of Spring";

18 - adulthood; since it is difficult to imagine coming of age in itself, it is possible to create specific associations that are somehow connected with this event: the ballot box (suffrage acquired with the onset of adulthood); army parade ground (no comment);

19 - NINETEEN: DAY (you can see the sunrise or hear the crowing of a rooster);

20 - a swan swimming in a lake or pond;

22 - Twenty Two - D D: DJ; Uncle (any uncle, for example, Uncle Sam);

23 - Twenty Three - D D T (Yuri Shevchuk);

24 - Game; 24-hour kiosk (24 hours);

25 - a quarter; for example, a quarter of the year (green summer, golden autumn, etc.),

26 - Twenty Six - L W: Soul, Soul;

27 - Board; Mikhail Lermontov;

28 - graphic association - meat grinder: 2 - handle, 8 - cross-shaped knife;

29 - TWENTY NINE - TWO GRANDS: Marx and Engels;

30 - Thirty - T C T: TeleCentre (TV tower, Ostankino tower);

31 - Thirty One - TO: Inspection; however, if this is too heavy an association, it can be replaced with Maintenance (imagine the smell and murmur of used oil flowing from the crankcase; strobe flashes during ignition timing, etc.). Women may associate the number THIRTY ONE with a handsome prince sitting on a THRONE;

32 - teeth: if you take care of your teeth, then their number should match this number;

33 - Jesus Christ; if you do not consider it possible to use Biblical images in mnemonic compositions (Giordano Bruno was at the stake precisely for this), then Thirty-Three is a TT pistol, or ToTosh from Alexander Volkov's Emerald City;

34 - Thirty Four - T H: Wheelbarrow, Cloud, T-34 tank;

35 - THIRTY FIVE - TRAP: for greater figurativeness, it can be represented together with an airplane or a ship;

36 - Thirty Six - T Sh: TuSha (sumo wrestler);

37 - Stalin or Beria (37 - year); if these images are too unpleasant, one can imagine Pushkin (although the gloomy number 37 does not lose its drama);

38 - THIRTY EIGHT - GRASS: a shock of freshly cut grass; tall, bright green grass in the meadow. T V (T V) - TV;

39 - THIRTY NINE: King Kashchei, languishing over gold in the Far Far Away kingdom. T D - ToDes: Alla Dukhovaya's ballet;

40 - Forty: FORTY; THE JUICE; Cabbage (forty clothes ...);

41 - air bomb with a cross (the year the war began). FORTY-ONE - SLEEP: sleeping bag, pillow. Painting by Salvador Dali "Dream";

42 - FORTY TWO - SODA, soda water; whiskey with soda;

43 - Forty-Three - Honeycombs: fresh honey in honeycombs (feel its aroma!);

44 - FORTY-FOUR: Christmas Eve (Christmas tree);

45 - salute (Victory). A woman who at this age (according to the famous hit) regains attractiveness;

46 - Forty Six - Bipod: light machine gun. C W - SaSha (for example, Alexander the Great);

47 - FORTY SEVEN - NEIGHBOR: imagine your neighbor in the stairwell (in the dacha, in the garage);

48 - FORTY EIGHT - SOVOK; Owl;

49 - Forty Nine - S R D: SaRDelka, Sardina, Sardoniks;

50 - fifty dollars; FIFTY - P T D T: Pterodactyl;

51 - Fifty-One -PTON: PiTON, PeON;

52 - Po-2 aircraft (biplane);

53 - Fifty THREE -PETER: PETER - I, PETARDA, PETERSBURG, PETRUSHKA, PETukh;

54 - FIFTY FOUR - P E CH E: COOKIES; FURNACE (Emelya on the stove);

55 - Fifty Five - P P: Pop, Parrot;

56 - Fifty Six - PESH: Pawn, PEDESTRIAN (pedestrian crossing),

57 - Fifty Seven - DOG: DOG; fox; Sand;

58 - Fifty Eight - P V: Pavian; Peacock; Cook;

59 - Fifty Nine - P D D: Pas De Des (classical ballet); driving instructor teaching traffic rules (rules of the road);

60 - SIXTY: POST; PROCESSION; GEAR;

61 - Sixty One - S O D: Chocolate;

62 - Sixty-two - SH T A: ROD; Trousers; Tripod;

63 - Sixty Three - Sh T R: Tent; Stormtrooper; Storm;

64 - chess (64 cells);

65 - Sixty Five - Sh P: ShiP (cactus); A cap;

66 - Sixty Six - Sh Sh: Shishka; ShiSh; Shushun;

67 - Sixty Seven - W S E: HIGHWAY; Chassis;

68 - Sixty Eight - W H: Bulgakov's ShVonder; ShaVka; Shiva;

69 - SIXTY NINE - SHE D E V: a masterpiece (Roden's The Thinker);

70 - SEVENTY: family;

71 - Seventy-one: since such an image as "dream" has already been used when encoding the number 41, there may be an association of SalON;

72 - SEVENTY TWO - SED: SADDLE (horse under saddle);

73 - SEVENTY-THREE - SET: NET; SET (in tennis); Setter;

74 - Seventy Four - S H: Sochi; Sachok;

75 - SEVENTY-FIVE - SEPT: SEPARATOR; Separatist; SEPTet (whether a samble of seven musicians);

76 - SEVENTY SIX: SEMESTER; Seven-string guitar;

77 - here you can use a graphic association - two braids (and along the road there are dead people with braids ...); mowing;

78 - SEVENTY EIGHT - SEV: sowing ("The Sower" by O. Bender); North; Stellate sturgeon; Owl;

79 - Seventy Two - S D: "CD"; Garden; Gardening;

80 - Moscow Olympiad; Olympic bear;

81 - Eighty one - WATERS: WATERFALL; Diver; Water; Vodka;

82 - EIGHTY TWO - V O D E V: VAUDEVILLE;

83 - EIGHTY THREE - W E T R: WIND; windmill;

84 - EIGHTY FOUR - EVENING (evening twilight, burning candles);

85 - Eighty Five - V O P: Crying in the wilderness; VP: VePr, Vladimir Putin

86 - Eighty Six - H E W: Hanger (you can imagine the theater starting from it);

87 - Eighty Seven - B C: Libra; Western; East;

88 - Eighty Eight - B B: Internal Troops (escort with a carbine);

89 - Eighty Nine -VED: Witch (for example, Margarita flying on a brush over Moscow at night);

90 - graphic association - an elephant drinking water from a lake (9 - an elephant's head with a trunk, 0 - a lake);

91 - Ninety-One-DON: Don Cossack in a hat, cloak and with a silver saber (it is useful to place brilliant fragments in the formed images);

92 - Ninety Two - D O D: Dodge Chrysler (powerful army jeep with camouflage coloring);

93 - Ninety-Three - D Y T: DYATel (to create a lasting image, try not only to see, but also to hear this pretty bird);

94 - Ninety-Four - D H: Duty Unit; Dacha (you can imagine your own cottage);

95 - NINETY FIVE - D E P T: DEPOT, DEPUTY; State Duma (here you can find a large number of bright, colorful images, both comical and frankly scary - it depends on your political preferences and the state of the nervous system);

96 - Ninety Six - DSH E S: DyuSHES (feel the taste and smell of a ripe juicy pear of this variety);

97 - Ninety Seven - D E S E: DESSERT (the image is also created based on individual preferences); Dossier

98 - Ninety Eight - DV E L: DOOR (for example, the door of your own apartment);

99 - Ninety Nine - GRANDFATHER: Santa Claus with a bag of gifts (is it possible to complete the "Big System" in a more pleasant way?).

The associations given here are just a canvas, exemplary versions of the transformation of numbers into images. Ideally, you need to re-produce "BS - 100" (personally for yourself), making up your own system of correspondences. Alien ("ready-made") associations are not always understood and accepted. In this case, of course, you do not need to discard those above examples that seemed successful to you. In my opinion, it is most convenient to make your own version of "BS-100" in the form of a separate booklet (cheat sheet), where each two-digit number from 00 to 99 will be "written" with its own figurative correspondence. This will allow you to work more effectively with "BS - 100" during training.

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How to improve memory and attention without drugs

Have you ever had that forgetfulness about important things at every step began to emerge as a real problem, and you desperately rushed to look for ways to dramatically improve memory and attention in a short time? I'll be honest: "Yes." Names, dates, phone numbers, street names, favorite books and films were forgotten. The sharpness of memory disappeared, information about events - present, past and even planned for the future - was erased. After 45 years, and some people much earlier, such problems often arise: they forgot to call back, take medicine, we don’t remember where they put the keys, mobile phone, what they wanted to do when they got up from the table and why they once again looked into the closed closet . Has your memory played such tricks on you?

If the answer is yes, this article is for you. We constantly talk about the benefits of sports for the body, do not hesitate to go to the gym to pump up our legs, remove our stomach, pump up our arms, press, buttocks, reduce the waist, increase the chest, but for some reason we do not pay due attention to brain training. But he is the same body as all the rest. This is our personal computer department, which we take care of with the least tenacity, because we are convinced that the priority right in this matter belongs entirely to nature. In fact, the brain and its abilities are too little studied and therefore there are few tips, which once again proves that we ourselves must be very attentive to the problems of our brain, carefully take care of its plasticity and development, maintaining the activity and strength of neurons.

Fortunately, in the pantry of nature there are many products to improve memory and sharpen attention: gingko biloba, royal jelly, cypress essential oil, herbal tea and basil, trace elements, minerals and vitamins, including magnesium, zinc, vitamin B.

Discover helpful tips for natural brain stimulation.

TOP 10 natural products to improve memory and attention

Originally from China, this tree magically improves memory! Surprisingly shaped leaves not only affect the processes of memory recovery, but also improve blood microcirculation in the brain, which has a positive effect on the entire cardiovascular system of the body.

For internal use, you can prepare an infusion of gingko leaves. To do this, let boil on low heat for an hour in a sealed container 40 grams of dried leaves, filled with a liter of water. Filter. Drink 1 glass in the morning, afternoon and evening after meals. If you do not have living leaves, you can take a homeopathic preparation of 2 capsules of 200 mg with a glass of water in the morning, at noon and in the evening with meals. The duration of admission is 1 month, then take a break and then continue the course if necessary.

Chinese ginseng root is great for improving memory. It contains 3-8% ginsenosides, which are considered the virtues of memory. You can prepare an infusion on your own: boil 3 g (no more) of finely chopped root in 50 ml of water for 10 minutes. Drink a glass 2 times a day for 20 days. The procedure can be repeated for three months.

Eleutherococcus root has similar properties, which is also extremely useful for improving brain function, as it helps to overcome mental fatigue and make it easier to remember information.

An extremely useful product for health, created by bees in the process of life, with a rich line of B vitamins. Extremely effective for the body, especially in adulthood. It activates not only the brain, but the whole body as a whole, improves the functioning of all organs. Royal jelly is a real treasure trove of nature for maintaining a high level of health, stimulating mental activity and improving memory.

It can be consumed in a pure and fresh form from knowledgeable beekeepers or in ready-made preparations, preferably in the morning, on an empty stomach, putting it under the tongue. The course of treatment is up to 6 weeks, if necessary, this can be repeated at the end of each season (December, March, June, September).

You can also prepare a drink consisting of a cup of soy milk, royal jelly and sugar (1 tablespoon each) to take. Stir, drink warm or cold in the morning.

According to US research published in 2004, a sufficient amount of magnesium in food helps maintain the plasticity of synapses (connections of brain cells), which tends to deteriorate over time.

Natural products help replenish the body with magnesium: wheat germ, cashew nuts, almonds (up to 300 mg per 100 grams), cocoa powder (up to 550 mg per 100 grams), sunflower and sesame seeds (up to 400 mg / 100 grams), walnuts , hazelnuts, dry white beans (300 mg / 100 grams). The recommended daily intake of magnesium is 420 mg for men and 360 mg for women.

This is another trace element that affects the improvement of memory, since it affects the hippocampus, located in the temporal regions of the hemispheres and playing a key role in the memory mechanism.

Zinc is found in pork liver (7 mg / 100 grams), ground beef, cheeses, the largest amount is in oysters (80 mg / 100 grams). Daily male dose - 12 mg, female - 10 mg.

If you want to improve your memory, be sure to eat foods rich in B vitamins. They are valuable for the proper functioning of the brain, preserve and guarantee good memory abilities. In particular, studies by Dutch scientists have shown that vitamin B9 prevents memory loss. A diet rich in vitamin B12 reduces the risk of memory impairment by six times.

To provide the body with enough B vitamins, add whole grains, sprouted wheat germ, spinach, peas, lentils, eggs, milk, fish, carrots to your daily diet, as they are high in B vitamins.

This herb, little known to most, is widely used in Ayurveda to rejuvenate mental abilities, strengthen and revitalize brain cells. Himalayan yogis use it in small amounts daily, which helps to establish a balance between the two hemispheres, relieves heart attacks and protects the heart. Vasora leads to an increase in the production of proteins in the hippocampus, which ensures long-term memory and efficient performance.

Just two cups of green tea a day can help prevent the risk of suffering from memory problems. Japanese scientists found that the memory of women who regularly consume green tea increased by an average of 30%.

Green tea is best consumed before 17:00, it is not recommended for pregnant women and children.

It improves blood microcirculation in the brain regions and prevents memory loss. It is enough to put one drop three times a day on some food or drink for several days to feel the improvement in memorization.

These natural products also help focus, improve memory. It is enough to hold a piece of sugar on the tongue until completely dissolved with one drop of pine, basil or mint oil in the morning and in the afternoon under the tongue. Treatment - within 10 days for three months in a row.

So that memory does not deteriorate, it is important not only to consume healthy natural products that increase brain activity, but also to avoid the negative impact on brain activity of individual factors.

With the constant absence of at least 6 hours of daily sleep, certain problems begin in the body with the transfer of information, natural reflexes, and memorization. Do not forget that you should not limit your night's sleep to a few hours before dawn, but you should give the body the opportunity to fully rest and relax for 8 hours.

It is no secret that certain medications, especially for controlling blood pressure, losing weight, and against allergies, can favor memory loss and dull brain activity.

Such changes can be caused by taking hormonal drugs, pregnancy, menopause and others.

People suffering from high blood pressure, especially middle-aged people, tend to experience memory impairment and brain problems as the small cerebral arteries begin to weaken due to constant pressure.

How to improve memory and attention by affordable means?

If lately a good memory has begun to fail you invariably, and you have not purchased the above products yet, try to strengthen the memorization processes with simpler means:

1. Eat nuts for nine days, observing a certain amount by day: on the first day - 6, then add one every day, so that on the 9th day there are fifteen.

2. Drink rosemary tea daily with a tablespoon of natural honey.

3. An infusion of brewed sage helps a lot (brew a handful of herbs with a glass of hot boiling water, insist for several minutes and strain).

4. Almond kernels, dried apricots and plums, consumed daily in 3 pieces, also help improve memory.

5. Not far behind them is ginger, finely chopped into thin slices and added to tea, salads, soups. Don't overdo it though, as ginger can cause high blood pressure.

6. Juice squeezed out of grapefruit, orange, with apple pulp is able to take care of memory every day. It is nutritious, perfectly improves memory and is great for periods of intense brain activity (for example, while preparing for exams).

7. You can also prepare a shake of orange juice and mango juice with pulp, walnuts (3 pcs.) And almond kernels (2 pcs.), Drink every morning.

8. Soak 4 prunes in a glass of water for 12 hours. After swelling, beat with figs and a glass of warm milk. A drink drunk at night helps to preserve memory and improve bowel function.

9. Boil 4.2 cups of water, to which add 7 teaspoons of anise. Put on a small fire and cook until the contents are reduced by one third. Add honey (4 tablespoons), stir, drink 2 tablespoons three times a day to improve memory.

Our brain starts to work more slowly after the age of 20. Over the years, people usually become wiser, but brain activity gradually decreases. So why not give yourself the opportunity to improve your mental abilities and safely enhance your memory functions? Do not take natural processes as a pattern, try to improve your memory and sharpen your attention at any stage of life. Do not forget about the need for constant training of brain activity with the help of special exercises, logical tasks, crossword puzzles, reading.

Be smart, young, vitally active, know a lot and remember everything!

Methods and means of improving memory after 40 years. Food, drugs for the brain

According to statistics, more than half of the Russian population experience forgetfulness after reaching a certain age threshold.

Undoubtedly, in some people this problem manifests itself earlier, in others later, but both are looking for the causes of the disease and ways to improve memory after 40 years.

Why does memory decline after 40 years

The main cause of memory deterioration in people over forty years of age is age-related changes in neurons and neural connections.

The most important factor that affects the process of destruction of brain cells is alcohol consumption.

It has been scientifically proven that with a hangover syndrome that occurs after drinking a large amount of alcohol, brain neurons die off much faster. Therefore, among lovers of strong drinks, by the age of forty, memory deteriorates significantly.

In addition to alcohol, there are other causes of memory impairment, in particular:

• smoking, drug and alcohol addiction;
• sleep disturbance;
• strokes;
• stress;
• traumatic brain injury, brain damage received at any age (i.e., an injury received at a young age can affect the state of memory already in adulthood).

Walking outdoors to improve memory

People over the age of 40 can improve memory by walking in the fresh air. It can be as simple walks in the park or forest, as well as walking with a dog or jogging.

The benefit of walking is that the body is saturated with oxygen. This circumstance is very important for residents of megacities or those who lead a sedentary lifestyle.

With the lifestyle that every second inhabitant of a big city leads, it is impossible to include long walks in the daily schedule. And because of this, the human body is deficient in oxygen.

To avoid such a state, you need to devote at least three hours a day to walks. After all, for correct operation brain neurons they need oxygen.

American scientists conducted a study in which two groups of people took part. One group did gymnastics in the gym, and the other walked for 45 minutes 3 times a week.

A year later, scientists examined people and came to the conclusion that in gymnasts, brain volume decreased by 1.5%, and walkers increased by 2% in areas that are responsible for memory and planning.

Performance increased when walking was combined with mental arithmetic, logical thinking (problem solving), reading, and memory training.

This experiment showed that prolonged exposure to fresh air helps rejuvenate neurons.

It is important to know! Walking in the fresh air helps not only improve memory after 40 years, but also get rid of other health problems. From such as fatigue, drowsiness, irritability.

Increased ventilation of the lungs. Improves the functioning of the digestive and cardiovascular systems.

How to improve memory (after 40): brain training

There are quite a lot of training for memory in game form. And they are considered the most effective.

You can improve your memory after 40 with the help of exercises such as:

• Puzzles. Collecting puzzles is useful, as this process develops logical thinking, concentration and attention;
• Board games. Games such as chess and checkers develop logic and attention;
• Crosswords. This lesson is useful in that it makes you think about questions, recall long-forgotten terms, etc.;
• Drawing up a daily routine. This helps to structure the amount of work that needs to be done and not to forget something important. First, you can write it down on paper, and then only memorize and reproduce it in your head during the day.

When looking for an answer to the question of how to improve memory after 40 years, you should pay attention to kinesiology exercises.

Using the techniques of kinesiology, a person can improve health, optimize the most important mental processes: thinking, attention, memory, perception, imagination, hearing and speech. It also improves mental performance.

The easiest exercise is to use your non-dominant hand.

This means that if a person is right-handed, then he should try to write, draw, eat, brush his teeth, take objects, comb his hair, turn pages with his left hand. And vice versa for lefties.

In the process of training, the work of both hemispheres of the brain is synchronized and the efficiency of its activity as a whole increases significantly.

It can also be mirrored. To do this, you need to take a pencil or pen in both hands, it is better if they are of different colors, and draw the same figures, as if one figure is a reflection of the other.

Figures can be geometric, flat, three-dimensional, simple and complex. But you can also write numbers and even words.

There is also an exercise called “random words”. Its essence is that you need to write down the first words that come to mind and then connect them with a story. At first it will be difficult, but after a few trainings everything will turn out easily.

Kinesiology exercises include mandala drawing. You can draw it yourself and then color it, buy a book with mandalas to color in, or print a picture downloaded from the Internet.

Combination of active and passive rest to improve memory

Problems with remembering information can arise from overexertion. To eliminate this risk factor, you need to learn how to dose work and rest.

Interesting fact! Many well-known and prominent personalities, such as Marietta Shaginyan, A. I. Herzen, V. A. Obruchev and others, preferred to do mental work only in the first half of the day, and in the early morning hours.

But besides work, they could arrange their schedule so that they had time to do everything necessary and not get tired.

The main thing that needs to be observed when resting is the correct ratio of passive and active rest.

Passive rest is a walk in the park, going to a cafe or restaurant, relaxing on the beach. Such a rest will help to relax and recuperate, to think about problems and their solutions.

• travel to other countries;
• mountain climbs;
• diving;
• skydiving or bungee jumping;
• cycling and much more.

This type of recreation will help relieve emotional stress, distract from problems, learn something new.

But if the schedule does not allow you to often include trips to cafes and trips to other countries, then the best option would be to alternate between different types of mental work.

And also, following the example of the philosopher Voltaire, to divide papers on different topics into different folders and boxes, that is, to structure.

Reading books to improve memory

Improving your memory after 40 is quite possible, and it's not as difficult as it seems. To do this, you need to read as much interesting literature as possible.

When reading, the reader follows the plot thought, developing events, the brain remembers information about the characters, feelings, fates of the characters.

But in order for reading to bring a greater effect, after reading a chapter or page, you need to reproduce in memory everything that was discussed in the read text. It improves memory, intelligence, and also develops vocabulary.

Among other things, reading helps to relieve emotional stress, relax.

Art therapy for memory training

Art therapy helps to cope with memory disorders associated with stress, depression and overexertion.

Art therapy techniques also help to cope with psychosomatic diseases: phobias, fears, self-doubt, isolation, resentment, aggression towards loved ones.

There are several types of such therapy.

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Helps to harmonize the internal state, express emotions. It is indicated for those people who cannot express feelings and emotions through speech, suffering from severe depression and acute psychosis.

When drawing, the right hemisphere is involved, which stores non-verbal memory - the memory of things you have ever seen.

Music therapy

Many people have musical compositions associated with some pleasant memories from life.

The principle is that when listening to melodies associated with moments of life, the brain independently reproduces these moments.

Music helps both improve memory after 40 years and relieve emotional stress.

Imagotherapy

This is a reproduction (retelling) of stories and playing situations from life.

This therapy trains memory by memorizing texts and dialogues, and also helps to acquire life experience and patterns of behavior in certain situations.

Foods that improve memory

For the brain to function properly, it needs oxygen and vitamins C, K, E, group B, Omega-3, and microelements such as phosphorus, selenium, and iodine.

Nutrition also influences how to improve memory after 40 years and its work in general.

These substances contain the following products:

• Milk is a source of vitamin B12, which contributes to better absorption of information. You need to drink 2 glasses a day;
• Garlic - accelerates blood circulation, as a result of which the brain receives more oxygen. With the use of two or three cloves of garlic every day, memory improves;
• Seaweed - a source of iodine, helps maintain a clear mind and in some cases increases IQ;
• Nuts are a source of B and E vitamins, magnesium and fatty amino acids. Develop thinking and stimulate the brain;
• Honey is a source of glucose. The brain feeds only on carbohydrates, that is, glucose. Glucose is also found in dried fruits.

Medications to improve memory

There is a huge variety of drugs that improve memory. They are available with or without a prescription.

• Preparations from the extract of the leaves of "Ginkgo Biloba". They affect the vascular system of the brain, thin the blood, the drug has an antidepressant effect. Struggling with memory loss, anxiety, sleep disturbance;
• Glycine. Preparations containing glycine saturate the medulla with an amino acid. Can be taken to relieve severe mental stress, stress, as well as for sleep disorders;
• Preparations with Eleutherococcus extract - tones the body. It is recommended for use to restore mental, physical performance, in case of overwork. Raises blood pressure.

Be careful! Medicines should be taken only after consulting a specialist.

If you follow a diet, do exercises to increase brain activity, take walks, read books and take drugs, then memory improvement is possible at any age.

From this video you will learn how to improve memory after 40 years, what you need to do for this:

In this video, you will find 5 tips to improve your memory.

Memory deterioration is possible even in young people - there are several reasons: overwork, bad habits, an uncontrolled flow of information.
Our memory needs constant work. To keep it from wasting, constantly learn something new, memorize poems by unknown authors, make your own crosswords and puzzles.

Constantly control yourself. When leaving home, be sure to check whether you have turned off the lights and electrical appliances, the water in the kitchen. Watch for crash. An alarm signal for you should be the lack of desire to learn something new and the ability to make plans for the future.

Memory impairment is sometimes the result of health problems. Then you need to see a doctor. But there is also forgetfulness. She, too, can and must be fought. Start by choosing a hobby. Sign up for a drawing circle, bead weaving, start learning a new language, sing, dance. The results will appear soon.

After the death of a loved one, a person feels cold and empty - a lot of problems pile up on a lonely person. Closing ourselves from the whole world, we risk weakening our attention, stop controlling our actions. You need to clear your brain of gloomy thoughts, force yourself to believe in the future.

In older people, the mind needs a reboot, as it is full of outdated information.

How to improve memory and attention in adults

Often, after 40-50 years, new material is remembered with great difficulty and this needs to be worked on.
To strengthen your memory, you can do simple exercises daily:

1. Close your eyes and try to type any sentence on the computer. It is useful to draw with your eyes closed, to wash your face.
2. While reading a book, try braiding your hair and massaging your head and face at the same time.
3. Try one day a week to brush your teeth, comb your hair, wash your face with your left hand if you are right-handed, and with your right hand if you are left-handed.
4. To forget all the bad things and start a new life, attach a blank sheet of white paper to the wall and start life “FROM A CLEAN SHEET”. Or stand with your back to the zero mark of the road pillar, take a step onto the road, and start life "FROM ZERO".

You only need to remember what is really important. All bad, unnecessary, harmful, fleeting mercilessly delete from your memory. This will not only save energy, but also extend your life.

According to statistics, more than half of the Russian population experience forgetfulness after reaching a certain age threshold.

Undoubtedly, in some people this problem manifests itself earlier, in others later, but both are looking for the causes of the disease and ways to improve memory after 40 years.

The main reason for the deterioration of memory in people after forty years of age is age-related changes in neurons and neural connections.

The most important factor that affects the process of destruction of brain cells is alcohol consumption.

It has been scientifically proven that with a hangover syndrome that occurs after drinking a large amount of alcohol, brain neurons die off much faster. Therefore, among lovers of strong drinks, by the age of forty, memory deteriorates significantly.

In addition to alcohol, there are other causes of memory impairment, in particular:

Walking outdoors to improve memory

People over the age of 40 can improve memory by walking in the fresh air. It can be as simple walks in the park or forest, as well as walking with a dog or jogging.

The benefit of walking is that the body is saturated with oxygen. This circumstance is very important for residents of megacities or those who lead a sedentary lifestyle.

With the lifestyle that every second inhabitant of a big city leads, it is impossible to include long walks in the daily schedule. And because of this, the human body is deficient in oxygen.

To avoid such a state, you need to spend at least three hours a day walking. After all, for the proper functioning of brain neurons, they need oxygen.

American scientists conducted a study in which two groups of people took part. One group did gymnastics in the gym, and the other walked for 45 minutes 3 times a week.

A year later, scientists examined people and came to the conclusion that in gymnasts, brain volume decreased by 1.5%, and walkers increased by 2% in areas that are responsible for memory and planning.

Performance increased when walking was combined with mental arithmetic, logical thinking (problem solving), reading, and memory training.

This experiment showed that prolonged exposure to fresh air helps rejuvenate neurons.

It is important to know! Walking in the fresh air helps not only improve memory after 40 years, but also get rid of other health problems. From such as fatigue, drowsiness, irritability.

Increased ventilation of the lungs. Improves the functioning of the digestive and cardiovascular systems.

How to improve memory (after 40): brain training

There are a lot of training for memory in the form of a game. And they are considered the most effective.

You can improve your memory after 40 with the help of exercises such as:

• Puzzles. Collecting puzzles is useful, as this process develops logical thinking, concentration and attention;
• Board games. Games such as chess and checkers develop logic and attention;
• Crosswords. This lesson is useful in that it makes you think about questions, recall long-forgotten terms, etc.;
• Drawing up a daily routine. This helps to structure the amount of work that needs to be done and not to forget something important. First, you can write it down on paper, and then only memorize and reproduce it in your head during the day.

When looking for an answer to the question of how to improve memory after 40 years, you should pay attention to kinesiology exercises.

Using the techniques of kinesiology, a person can improve health, optimize the most important mental processes: thinking, attention, memory, perception, imagination, hearing and speech. It also improves mental performance.

The easiest exercise is to use your non-dominant hand.

This means that if a person is right-handed, then he should try to write, draw, eat, brush his teeth, take objects, comb his hair, turn pages with his left hand. And vice versa for lefties.

In the process of training, the work of both hemispheres of the brain is synchronized and the efficiency of its activity as a whole increases significantly.

It can also be mirrored. To do this, you need to take a pencil or pen in both hands, it is better if they are of different colors, and draw the same figures, as if one figure is a reflection of the other.

Figures can be geometric, flat, three-dimensional, simple and complex. But you can also write numbers and even words.

There is also an exercise called “random words”. Its essence is that you need to write down the first words that come to mind and then connect them with a story. At first it will be difficult, but after a few trainings everything will turn out easily.

Kinesiology exercises include mandala drawing. You can draw it yourself and then color it, buy a book with mandalas to color in, or print a picture downloaded from the Internet.

Combination of active and passive rest to improve memory

Problems with remembering information can arise from overexertion. To eliminate this risk factor, you need to learn how to dose work and rest.

Interesting fact! Many well-known and prominent personalities, such as Marietta Shaginyan, A. I. Herzen, V. A. Obruchev and others, preferred to do mental work only in the first half of the day, and in the early morning hours.

But besides work, they could arrange their schedule so that they had time to do everything necessary and not get tired.

The main thing that needs to be observed when resting is the correct ratio of passive and active rest.

Passive rest is a walk in the park, going to a cafe or restaurant, relaxing on the beach. Such a rest will help to relax and recuperate, to think about problems and their solutions.

Active recreation is:

This type of recreation will help relieve emotional stress, distract from problems, learn something new.

But if the schedule does not allow you to often include trips to cafes and trips to other countries, then the best option would be to alternate between different types of mental work.

And also, following the example of the philosopher Voltaire, to divide papers on different topics into different folders and boxes, that is, to structure.

Reading books to improve memory

Improving your memory after 40 is quite possible, and it's not as difficult as it seems. For this you need to read as much interesting literature as possible.

When reading, the reader follows the plot thought, developing events, the brain remembers information about the characters, feelings, fates of the characters.

But in order for reading to bring a greater effect, after reading a chapter or page, you need to reproduce in memory everything that was discussed in the read text. It improves memory, intelligence, and also develops vocabulary.

Among other things, reading helps relieve emotional stress, relax.

Art therapy for memory training

Art therapy helps to cope with memory disorders associated with stress, depression and overexertion.

Art therapy techniques also help to cope with psychosomatic diseases: phobias, fears, self-doubt, isolation, resentment, aggression towards loved ones.

There are several types of such therapy.

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Helps to harmonize the internal state, express emotions. It is indicated for those people who cannot express feelings and emotions through speech, suffering from severe depression and acute psychosis.

When drawing, the right hemisphere is involved, which stores non-verbal memory - the memory of things you have ever seen.

Music therapy

Many people have musical compositions associated with some pleasant memories from life.

The principle is that when listening to melodies associated with moments of life, the brain independently reproduces these moments.

Music helps both improve memory after 40 years and relieve emotional stress.

Imagotherapy

This is a reproduction (retelling) of stories and playing situations from life.

This therapy trains memory by memorizing texts and dialogues, and also helps to gain life experience and behavior patterns in some situations.

Foods that improve memory

For the brain to function properly, it needs oxygen and vitamins C, K, E, group B, Omega-3, and microelements such as phosphorus, selenium, and iodine.

Nutrition also influences how to improve memory after 40 years and its work in general.

These substances contain the following products:

• Milk- a source of vitamin B12, which contributes to better assimilation of information. You need to drink 2 glasses a day;
• Garlic- accelerates blood circulation, as a result of which the brain receives more oxygen. With the use of two or three cloves of garlic every day, memory improves;
• sea ​​kale- a source of iodine, helps maintain a clear mind and in some cases increases IQ;
• nuts- a source of B vitamins, E, magnesium and fatty amino acids. Develop thinking and stimulate the brain;
• Honey is a source of glucose. The brain feeds only on carbohydrates, that is, glucose. Glucose is also found in dried fruits.

Medications to improve memory

There is a huge variety of drugs that improve memory. They are available with or without a prescription.

The main drugs are:

• Preparations from the extract of the leaves of "Ginkgo Biloba". They affect the vascular system of the brain, thin the blood, the drug has an antidepressant effect. Struggling with memory loss, anxiety, sleep disturbance;
• Glycine. Preparations containing glycine saturate the medulla with an amino acid. Can be taken to relieve severe mental stress, stress, as well as for sleep disorders;
• Preparations with Eleutherococcus extract- tones the body. It is recommended for use to restore mental, physical performance, in case of overwork. Raises blood pressure.

Be careful! Medicines should be taken only after consulting a specialist.

If you follow a diet, do exercises to increase brain activity, take walks, read books and take drugs, then memory improvement is possible at any age.

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An article on the topic: "methods and means of improving memory after 40 years. food, drugs for the brain" from professionals.

In our age, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope with the avalanche of information that floods us every day. Already in the elementary grades, schools daily require retelling of long paragraphs of the text, and then the institute and work follow, where you have to memorize and memorize even more. It is not surprising that by old age, and sometimes even earlier, the brain wears out and begins to let us down more and more often. To troubleshoot his work, nootropics were created, with the help of which the brain begins to actively function. Below is a selection of drugs from this group and their brief description.

5 over-the-counter memory boosters

1. Noopept

A new generation drug developed by a group of Russian scientists with a dual action mechanism.

Firstly, it improves memory, learning ability, acting like a natural "memory peptide" of the brain, has a pronounced stimulating effect on all three phases of memory - input and primary processing of information, consolidation and reproduction of information.

This feature makes it possible to greatly facilitate the processes of memorization and thinking, to retain the necessary fragments in memory for a long time.

Secondly, Noopept has a complex neuroprotective effect: it not only protects brain neurons from damage and helps restore their functions, but also improves their blood supply and microcirculation.

Noopept also improves concentration, which is especially important when used in the elderly, whose brain cannot work with the same briskness, and in people whose profession requires increased concentration, for example, drivers. The drug is contraindicated in pregnant women, during breastfeeding and children who have not yet turned 18. Patients with hypersensitivity may experience allergies, and those suffering from severe hypertension may have a rise in blood pressure.

2. Bilobil

The drug is based on the extract of ginkgo biloba. Its action is associated with the improvement of blood circulation in the peripheral vessels and vessels of the brain, the strengthening of blood vessels, and an antioxidant effect.

It is effective for violations of memory, attention, sleep patterns caused by serious illnesses and injuries, circulatory disorders in the vessels of the periphery, dizziness.

It is not recommended for children under 18, patients with hypersensitivity who have had a myocardial infarction, gastritis, accompanied by the appearance of erosions on the gastric mucosa, gastric ulcer in the acute stage. Side effects include headache, dizziness, allergies, nausea, and vomiting.

Created on the basis of aminoacetic acid, which has an inhibitory effect on the nervous system, which causes a sedative effect (drowsiness). Thanks to the active component, the metabolism in brain tissues improves. Glycine is used for symptoms of nervous strain, excitability, reduced mental activity, and sleep disturbances. Contraindications include hypersensitivity to the components of the drug, and among side effects allergic reactions can be identified. But Glycine has a mild effect on the body, so it is not always effective for serious brain disorders.

4. Aminalon

A drug containing gamma-aminobutyric acid, which improves metabolism in brain tissues, stimulates memory and the psyche. Reduces blood sugar levels in people with diabetes mellitus, has an anticonvulsant, hypotensive effect. Among the indications for the use of Aminalon are residual effects of TBI, stroke, encephalopathy of various origins; alcoholic ponyneurapotia, cerebral palsy, consequences of birth trauma in children. The drug is recommended for use in children lagging behind their peers in intellectual development. Contraindications include hypersensitivity to components, children under 1 year of age, acute renal failure, and side effects may change blood pressure, dyspeptic, allergic phenomena, nausea, vomiting, insomnia.

5. Intellan

The drug was created on the basis of plant extracts containing flavonoids, amino acids, vitamins. Improves blood circulation of brain tissue and metabolism. It has a neurostimulating effect, due to which it can be used not only for circulatory disorders in the cerebral vessels, but also for depressive, anxiety states. Contraindications to taking Intellan are severe diseases of the cardiovascular system, pregnancy and breastfeeding, hypersensitivity. Sometimes, against the background of taking Intellan, allergies, sleep disorders, dyspeptic disorders, and an increase in blood pressure are possible.

5 prescription drugs to improve memory

1. Cerebrolysin

Produced in ampoules, it contains a concentrate of a peptide preparation obtained from pig brain. Improves the condition of nerve cells, prevents the effects of harmful factors on them. It is indicated for Alzheimer's disease, complications that have developed after a stroke, brain injuries and their consequences, mental retardation and mental development in children. Contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity, epilepsy, severe kidney disease. In rare cases, it can cause loss of appetite, depression, changes in blood pressure, weakness.

2. Picamilon

A nootropic drug containing a derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid as the main component. It improves the blood supply to the brain vessels, is effective in combating migraine, asthenic, depressive conditions in the elderly, and vegetative-vascular dystonia. Contraindicated in children under 3 years of age, women during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The drug should be used with caution in persons with severe renal impairment. May cause headache, rash, nausea, nervous irritability.

3. Encephabol

It has its effect due to pyritinol, which is able to normalize metabolic processes in the brain and has antioxidant properties. It is indicated for atherosclerosis, the consequences of head injury and severe brain diseases, encephalitis. It is used in children to treat encephalopathy and mental retardation. Contraindicated in hypersensitivity, and those suffering from severe renal impairment and autoimmune diseases should be careful when taking. May cause dyspeptic disorders, loss of appetite, fatigue, allergies. The drug is prescribed with caution to patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A large number of side effects when taking Encephabol make it difficult to use it in the wide practice of therapists and neurologists. When prescribing Encephabol, the doctor also needs to perform additional laboratory tests, which is economically disadvantageous for the patient.

4. Nootropil

The drug based on piracetam accelerates the metabolism in the brain, the processes of learning and memorization. It is used for Alzheimer's disease, chronic headaches, disorders of cognitive functions, memory, astheno-depressive syndrome. Contraindicated in psychomotor agitation at the time of administration of the drug, Huntington's chorea, acute cerebrovascular accident (hemorrhagic stroke, severe renal dysfunction, hypersensitivity to components, pregnancy, breastfeeding, with extensive surgical interventions, severe bleeding, impaired hemostasis. May cause impaired concentration, dyspepsia, anxiety, appetite disorders.

5. Cavinton

The active component of the drug vinpocetine improves the metabolic processes of the brain and the rheological properties of the blood. Effective with increasing stroke, atherosclerosis, encephalopathy that developed after injury. Contraindicated in severe arrhythmia, coronary artery disease, lactation and pregnancy (no safety data available). May cause palpitations, decrease in blood pressure, increased arrhythmia, dry mouth, dyspepsia, migraine.

In order for the brain to work productively, you can memorize a short passage of a poem or other text every day, comprehending what you read. Crossword puzzles, sudoku, chess and checkers are perfect for training memory and thinking. In your diet you need to include foods rich in vitamins B, E and C (meat, fish, currants, cheese, milk, oranges, nuts, various cereals), iron and iodine. It is useful to move a lot, develop fine motor skills (embroider, bead weaving), observe sleep patterns and avoid stress.

Conclusions about the clear superiority of Noopept.

All drugs have their advantages and disadvantages, but the very promising innovative drug Noopept definitely deserves attention. It is not only effective in a variety of conditions, but also safe. Noopept is not approved for use in children under 18 years of age. there is not enough clinical data for the safety of the drug. But it is possible that in the near future the drug will be allowed for use in pediatric practice.

Your brain is amazing. Being the control center of the whole organism, it is he who controls the heartbeat, breathing, your every movement, thought and sensation. That is why it is important to keep it in the best working condition. But how to do that?

Products that improve memory and brain function

What we eat has a significant impact on brain health. In this article, we've rounded up the best brain and memory foods and explain why it's important to have every item on this list in your diet.

1. oily fish

When it comes to what foods improve memory and brain function, oily fish comes to mind first of all. And not in vain.

Fish such as salmon, trout and sardines are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which have a beneficial effect on memory, information perception and learning.

And the brain is 60% fat, and half of it is similar in structure to omega-3s. The brain uses these acids to make nerve cells.

On this beneficial features omega-3 fatty acids do not run out.

Sufficient intake of this substance can slow down the mental decline that inevitably comes with age, as well as prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

At the same time, the lack of omega-3 leads not only to a decrease in efficiency, but also to depression.

One study found that people who regularly ate boiled fish had more gray matter in their brains, which contains nerve cells that control our memory, emotions, and decision-making abilities.

Bottom Line: Oily fish is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for the brain to produce nerve cells. Omega-3s help improve memory and mood, as well as significantly reduce the rate of age-related changes in brain activity.

If your morning starts consistently with a cup of coffee, then we are happy to tell you that you are doing everything right. Coffee contains brain-boosting caffeine and antioxidants.

Caffeine improves brain activity in the following ways:

• Improves attention: caffeine blocks the production of adenosine, a substance that causes drowsiness, allowing a person to better perceive the environment.
• Improves mood: caffeine stimulates the production of substances such as serotonin, which are known to improve mood.
• Enhances concentration: studies have shown that those subjects who drank a large cup of coffee in the morning and a few more small ones during the day were better able to cope with work that required a high concentration of attention.

Regular coffee consumption also reduces the risk of developing neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It is likely that this is partly due to the high concentration of various antioxidants in the drink.

Conclusion: Coffee improves concentration and mood. It also reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Despite a lot of controversy, caffeine and antioxidants are still important and beneficial for our body, especially for brain function.

1. Blueberry

Blueberries are another product that is good for the brain and the whole body.

Blueberries, like other colorful berries, are high in anthocyanins, a plant substance with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. It allows you to slow down the aging process of the brain and the development of neurodegenerative diseases.

In addition, the antioxidants contained in blueberries accumulate in the body, improving communication between brain cells.

Animal studies have confirmed that blueberries improve memory and even help combat short-term memory loss.

Try adding some berries to your morning cereal or smoothie.

Conclusion: Improving memory and slowing down the aging process of the brain, blueberries give such an effect due to the high content of beneficial antioxidants.

1. Turmeric

This rich yellow condiment, which is the main ingredient in curries, has caused a lot of noise lately.

Thanks to the substance - curcumin, which stimulates blood circulation, turmeric is one of the foods to improve memory. It has the following useful properties:

• Improves memory: Eating turmeric helps improve memory in Alzheimer's patients. It also clears amyloid plaques. Which are the main distinguishing feature of this disease.
• Helps fight depression: Turmeric improves the production of serotonin and dopamine, hormones that improve mood. Studies have shown that curcumin is able to stop depression syndromes as well as 6 weeks of taking antidepressants.
• Stimulates the growth of brain cells: Curcumin enhances the neurotrophic factor that affects the growth of brain cells. This allows you to overcome age-related decline in mental development, but this phenomenon has not yet been fully studied by scientists.

To get the most out of curcumin, try adding curry powder to your meals and learn how to make turmeric tea.

Conclusion: The active substance in turmeric, curcumin, has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, which improves brain function and alleviates the symptoms of depression and Alzheimer's disease.

1. Broccoli

Broccoli is full of health benefits, including antioxidants. 100 grams of this product contains more than 100% of the recommended daily value of vitamin K. This fat-soluble vitamin is necessary for the formation of sphingolipids, a type of fat found in significant amounts in brain cells

A number of studies have confirmed that vitamin K improves memory.

In addition to vitamin K, broccoli contains a number of substances with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects that help the body fight brain damage.

Bottom Line: Broccoli contains a number of substances, such as vitamin K, with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.

1. Pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin seeds contain powerful antioxidants that prevent free radical damage to the body and brain. In addition, it is a good source of magnesium, iron, zinc and copper.

Each of these substances is necessary for better brain function:

• Zinc: Zinc deficiency in the body leads to many neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, depression and Parkinson's disease.
• Magnesium: magnesium is good for memory and learning. Low levels of this substance lead to migraines, depression and epilepsy.
• Copper: The brain uses copper to control nerve impulses. Copper deficiency can lead to Alzheimer's disease.
• Iron: iron deficiency often causes foggy consciousness and impaired brain function.

Researchers are more often focused on studying micronutrients than pumpkin seeds themselves. However, it is they that contain all of the listed substances in sufficient volume, so this product to improve memory and brain function is definitely worth adding to your menu.

Bottom Line: Pumpkin seeds are rich in brain-healthy micronutrients, including copper, iron, magnesium, and zinc.

1. Dark chocolate

Dark chocolate and cocoa powder contain a number of brain-healthy compounds, such as flavonoids, caffeine, and antioxidants.

Flavonoids are a type of plant antioxidant. They have a beneficial effect on the areas of the brain responsible for learning and memory. Researchers have confirmed that this ingredient improves memory and slows down age-related changes in the brain.

A few years ago, a large-scale study was conducted, in which more than 90 people took part. As a result, the researchers found that those of the subjects who ate chocolate more often performed significantly better on memory tasks.

Chocolate is not only a product for the brain and memory, but also a legal way to improve mood. However, it is not completely clear whether this is due to the composition of chocolate or its taste.

1. nuts

Studies have shown that eating nuts improves heart health, and a healthy heart has a positive effect on brain health. In 2014, scientists proved that nuts improve cognitive abilities and prevent the occurrence of non-degenerative diseases.

Another study showed that women who regularly ate nuts for several years had better memory than those who either ate nuts infrequently or not at all.

All these positive properties can be explained by the high content of healthy fats, antioxidants and vitamin E in nuts.

Vitamin E protects brain cells from free radical damage. That allows you to slow down the development of neurodegenerative processes.

Walnuts are not in vain outwardly similar to the brain. They are the healthiest of all due to their high content of omega-3 fatty acids.

Bottom Line: Nuts contain a number of brain-healthy nutrients, including vitamin E, healthy fats, and fiber.

1. oranges

By eating one orange a day, you get daily allowance vitamin C. In addition, it is good for the brain, since vitamin C, according to studies in 2014, prevents the occurrence of a number of diseases and age-related changes in the brain.

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that effectively protects the brain from free radicals.

In addition to oranges, enough vitamin C is found in bell peppers, guava, kiwi, tomatoes and strawberries.

Bottom Line: Oranges and other foods high in vitamin C protect brain cells from free radical damage.

Eggs are a great source of many brain-healthy nutrients, including vitamins B6 and B12, folic acid, and choline.

You might be wondering if a protein is a protein or not.

Choline is an important micronutrient that our bodies use to synthesize acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that helps regulate mood and memory. Studies have shown that sufficient intake of this substance significantly improves memory. Unfortunately, the diet of many people does not contain enough choline.

Egg yolk is the best source of this beneficial micronutrient. The recommended allowance of choline is 425 milligrams per day, for women 550. One egg contains as much as 112 mg of choline.

The B vitamins found in eggs also play a significant role in brain health.

For starters, they help slow down age-related changes in the brain.

In addition, depression and dementia can often be caused by a lack of these particular vitamins.

At the moment, there has been little research on the effects of eggs on brain health. However, the benefits of the substances contained in them have long been known and confirmed by scientists.

Conclusion: Eggs are rich in B vitamins and cholines, which have a significant impact on the functioning and development of brain cells, as well as improve mood.

1. Green tea

Just like coffee, the caffeine in green tea improves brain function.

But in addition to caffeine, green tea contains a number of other beneficial substances.

One of these is L-theanine, an amino acid that can cross the blood-brain barrier and increase the activity of the GABA neurotransmitter, which helps reduce anxiety.

L-theanine also increases the frequency of alpha brain waves, which helps you relax by reducing feelings of fatigue.

Some studies have found that L-theanine counteracts the invigorating effect of coffee, helping you relax and fall asleep.

Green tea is also rich in polyphenols and antioxidants that protect against mental decline and the risk of developing diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

In addition, green tea improves memory.

Conclusion: Green tea is a great product that is good for the brain and memory. It contains caffeine to improve attention, antioxidants protect brain cells, and L-theanine helps to relax.

Foods useful for the brain and memory - the result

Proper nutrition is the key to a good memory and a healthy brain.

Some foods, such as fruits, vegetables, tea and coffee, contain beneficial antioxidants that protect the brain from damage.

Others, such as nuts and eggs, are rich in substances that support memory and brain development.

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Hello dear readers. Sadly, but our body begins to age from the age of 25. And in the fifth decade (don't let this expression scare you), menopause comes and the changes associated with it in a woman's body. One of them is distracted attention, poor memorization of information. Modern medicine offers many pills and drugs to slow down aging, including improving memory. But do you need another item on your drug menu? In this post, we will tell you how to improve memory after 40 years without medication.

Brain and memory after 40

There are many factors that affect long-term and short-term memory. In adulthood, it makes sense to talk about several groups of reasons, why the process of memorization and recall worsens:

• diseases of internal organs;
• unfavorable external environment;
• chronic intoxication of the body (meaning mainly bad habits - smoking, alcohol, overeating);
• lack of sleep;
• cell aging.

Heart problems reduce blood flow to the head. As a result, the brain does not have enough power to function normally. The same result gives a metabolic disorder (including obesity). In this case, if you eliminate the disease, the ability to “work your head” normally and extract the necessary information from your consciousness will return. In fact, it is never too late to lose weight - here is the real story of losing weight even after 50 years.

You may be accustomed to dealing with a large amount of data at work, but gradually this information will break your memory. The human brain is daily overloaded with a huge amount of information, which is facilitated by the Internet, mobile communications and other modern inventions. All this, as well as stress at work and in the family, cause chronic fatigue, which is difficult to get rid of. “In order to rest tomorrow, you need to work better today,” you say to yourself. The intense rhythm of life affects the processes of memorization, and not for the better.

Chronic intoxications over the years are also negative for memories. If you have been smoking or drinking alcohol all your life, your brain cells have atrophied. This is not critical if you quit the addiction.

In addition, with age, the walls of blood vessels in the brain lose their elasticity, and the lumen of the vessel decreases. Such a process is natural, and without initiating factors will not greatly affect memory. But if you add one of the phenomena described above to this, the brain will quickly worsen its work.

In ordinary life, it is better to correct the work of memory, attention and activity of our brain using simple methods. We will introduce you to them.

The way to improve memory is to spend time naturally

Go for a walk! Daily festivities in the green part of the city will help you relax, relieve stress and forget about problems. In addition, oxygen, supplied to the brain in sufficient volume, activates thought processes and the work of cells responsible for memory. And if you take up some simple and enjoyable sport (for example, Nordic walking), then not only physical, but also mental processes will accelerate in you.

No time for a good rest in the forest or park? Then choose a long way home from work, look around and think about the pleasant.

There is another factor that strongly influences memories. Our gadgets, be it a smartphone with social networks, a tablet with your favorite game or a laptop.

Firstly, they take our time and take away our attention. Secondly, tons of unnecessary information enters the head through them. For example, you remember how many hours you need to water the beds in the Frenzy Farm or what photo a former colleague put on your profile picture, but the information where the keys were put disappears from your head.

This happens because the "operative" memory of the brain is not infinite, and at the same time it contains things not in order of importance, but those that hit first.

If you don’t poke your nose at gadgets during your lunch break, on the road after a hard day, spending an evening with your family and on weekends, your memory will say “thank you” to you and get your work done.

A gift for memory - quality rest

Nerves "on edge" interfere with remembering new things and remembering the necessary information. Therefore, it is important to take time for personal rest. Aromatherapy, spa treatments, massage are good ways to calm your nerves. Meditation is indispensable for the effective functioning of the brain.

One should not think that this is the lot of the enlightened, and meditation is difficult to learn. The simplest form of meditation is to focus on the sensations in your body or your own breath. Breathe slowly and think "breath-breath-breath" as you do so. 1-2 minutes - and the nerves are calm, and the brain is ready for new great achievements.

In a word, choose the relaxation option you like and devote time to it.

Also in the process of improving memory, it is important proper nutrition. We are not talking about a special diet, it is enough not to eat junk food - fast food, fatty, smoked, sweets and rolls.

brain training

There are many exercises on the Internet to improve memory, supposedly five minutes a day - and brain function will recover and return to full. In fact, when returning to the previous level of memory, it is important to understand two basic things:

• the work of the brain and body are connected;
• work to improve memorization and recall should go according to plan, the brain must be kept in good shape.

Based on the first point, it is clear that physical activity, whether it is jogging in the morning and the gym or jumping rope at home, helps to preserve and improve memory. Why? During exercise, you focus on your body and do not think about informational noise. Secondly, sport affects the metabolism and movement of blood in the body, in particular, to the brain.

By the way, our brain is powered by two substances - oxygen and glucose. Physical activity (preferably in the fresh air) helps the brain to be saturated with oxygen and supply, along with increased blood circulation, enough glucose.

Any physical activity has a beneficial effect on memory. The main thing here is regularity.

Development fine motor skills(fingers and toes), acupuncture activates the work of nerve cells. They, like communication channels, help us in memory processes. Therefore, after forty, you can find yourself a new hobby: Lego constructor, modeling, calligraphy. So you stimulate the brain through the nerve endings.

So that the brain does not “relax” and the memory does not become like a sieve, it needs to be trained. At the same time, there are different approaches for short-term and long-term memory.

To preserve and improve short-term memory, participation in intellectual games, scanwords, board games on associations. All that requires extracting a specific fact from an array of memories.

A long-playing memory will be refreshed and restored by a business, for the continuation of which it is necessary to accumulate already studied knowledge. For example, new foreign language, playing musical instruments, reading works of art. To continue reading the book, you have to remember what happened earlier in the story.

An important point in memory exercises is not to get hung up on the goal, but to make the lesson a habit. When you solve crossword puzzles for your own pleasure, the information you need will be found faster than if you start thinking "I'm doing this to make my memory sharper."

Change the environment more often - new impressions and emotions have a positive effect on brain activity.

Art therapy that trains memory

Another curious and effective method is special drawing.

It is known that left-handed people have a better developed left hemisphere (it is responsible for logic and analytical thinking), right-handed people have a better developed one (it is also responsible for creativity and our emotions). Of course, for a fulfilling life, all these factors will be useful to us.

Drawing with both hands will help develop the activity of the hemispheres. To begin with, with your "non-primary" hand, draw something simple - a cloud, a sun, a flower, perhaps even lines or letters. Then make it harder.

This is how we will develop the so-called “motor cortex”, which will “pull up” the parts of the brain with it.

Complicating the process, we can add another hand to the training, i.e. draw them at the same time.

Food for memory

An important point is food. Foods that are rich in Omega-3 acids will help improve memory - these are fatty sea fish, linseed oil.

As a carbohydrate food, it is still better to choose slow carbohydrates that give energy gradually and without sugar surges that are harmful to both the brain and the body. These include cereals, whole-grain pasta and bread, most fruits (with the exception of the sweetest - figs, bananas, grapes, persimmons). Sweet fruits are also possible, but not abusing.

Good foods that contain tryptophan (this is, as it were, a precursor of serotonin, known as the hormone of happiness) are cottage cheese, cheese, and indeed dairy products, poultry meat. By the way, bananas also contribute to the production of serotonin. So it is ideal to combine a banana with kefir / cottage cheese / milk so that carbohydrates from a sweet fruit are not absorbed quickly, and the benefits of a banana for memory and body are fully received.

There are also special substances that are more likely not medicines in the full sense of the word, but they help optimize both metabolism and brain activity. Mainly:

• Eleutherococcus, which improves cerebral circulation;
• ginseng tincture, which is an adaptogen for all body systems;
• lemongrass seed tincture.

These herbs increase stress resistance, improve the functions of the nervous system and mental abilities of a person.

In a word, proper nutrition, regular intellectual activity and a healthy lifestyle will help prevent memory impairment.

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The food you eat nourishes the brain and greatly affects the ability to think, learn and store information. So the right food for memory and brain function- something that will help you stay alert and healthy, keep mentally active during the day.

Choose a way to support yourself inspired and upbeat to achieve goals, fill every day with meaning, new knowledge, new victories.

Food for the brain and memory

1 avocado

Avocados are a little powerhouse filled with healthy fats and energy.

The nutrients in avocados are important for your brain and skin and also help stabilize your blood sugar levels. It is also a rich source of vitamin D.

Salad dressing recipe from Lana Chulanova:

• avocado 1 piece,
• garlic 1 clove,
• olive oil to taste
• juice of 1 lemon or 0.5 lemon,
• salt,
• you can add cucumber.

Put it all in a blender and grind to a sauce. It is very tasty to season salads, especially with herbs.

2 Cranberries & Blueberries

Cranberries make you the smartest! This is the verdict of the researchers. The berry is rich in organic acids, pigments and pectins. In this sour berry unique combination of fructose and acids, including the very valuable citric acid.

Cranberry juice will restore vigor even after a busy day.

In second place after cranberries is blueberries. This wonderful berry is rich in antioxidants, which protect the brain, and manganese, which improves eyesight.

Also, blackberries and strawberries help improve memory and brain function.

3 Cedar oil

Cedar oil is unique in its composition: fat-soluble vitamins - A, D, K, B vitamins, vitamin C, trace elements potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, etc., contains omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9 acids .

Pine nut oil surpasses other oilseeds and nuts in the content of phospholipids, which serve building material for cells necessary for the functioning of the brain and nervous system.

Regular consumption of cedar oil reduces the risk of developing age-related diseases of the nervous system and improves brain activity.

In second place is cold-pressed olive oil. It is rich in polyphenols, which facilitate the process of learning and memorization. They can also reverse the signs of aging and neuronal damage in the brain.

Olive oil decomposes quickly at high temperatures, so add the oil to salads or vegetables after cooking.

Include different oils in your diet: linseed, mustard, corn.

4 Walnuts

Walnuts are not in vain similar to halves of the brain. Scientists at Tufts University in Boston found that a diet rich in walnuts can improve mental performance.

The synergy between certain types of antioxidants and the omega-3 fatty acids in nuts increase brain power.

Also useful for the brain and other nuts - pine and hazelnuts, almonds.

When want something to chew on, take the walnuts!

5 Turmeric

This ancient root is one of the most powerful nutrients found in nature. Turmeric has antioxidant effects and helps keep you young.

Turmeric contains curcumin, which has anti-inflammatory properties and improve short term memory.

> Memory deterioration after 40 years in women

Hello dear readers. Sadly, but our body begins to age from the age of 25. And in the fifth decade (don't let this expression scare you), menopause comes and the changes associated with it in a woman's body. One of them is distracted attention, poor memorization of information. Modern medicine offers many pills and drugs to slow down aging, including improving memory. But do you need another item on your drug menu? In this post, we will tell you how to improve memory after 40 years without medication.

There are many factors that affect long-term and short-term memory. In adulthood, it makes sense to talk about several groups of reasons, why the process of memorization and recall worsens:

• diseases of internal organs;
• unfavorable external environment;
• chronic intoxication of the body (meaning mainly bad habits - smoking, alcohol, overeating);
• lack of sleep;
• cell aging.

Heart problems reduce blood flow to the head. As a result, the brain does not have enough power to function normally. The same result gives a metabolic disorder (including obesity). In this case, if you eliminate the disease, the ability to “work your head” normally and extract the necessary information from your consciousness will return. In fact, it is never too late to lose weight - here is the real story of losing weight even after 50 years.

You may be accustomed to dealing with a large amount of data at work, but gradually this information will break your memory. The human brain is daily overloaded with a huge amount of information, which is facilitated by advertising, the Internet, mobile communications and other modern inventions. All this, as well as stress at work and in the family, cause chronic fatigue, which is difficult to get rid of. “In order to rest tomorrow, you need to work better today,” you say to yourself. The intense rhythm of life affects the processes of memorization, and not for the better.

Chronic intoxications over the years are also negative for memories. If you have been smoking or drinking alcohol all your life, your brain cells have atrophied. This is not critical if you quit the addiction.

In addition, with age, the walls of blood vessels in the brain lose their elasticity, and the lumen of the vessel decreases. Such a process is natural, and without initiating factors will not greatly affect memory. But if you add one of the phenomena described above to this, the brain will quickly worsen its work.

In ordinary life, it is better to correct the work of memory, attention and activity of our brain using simple methods. We will introduce you to them.

The way to improve memory is to spend time naturally

Go for a walk! Daily festivities in the green part of the city will help you relax, relieve stress and forget about problems. In addition, oxygen, supplied to the brain in sufficient volume, activates thought processes and the work of cells responsible for memory. And if you take up some simple and enjoyable sport (for example, Nordic walking), then not only physical, but also mental processes will accelerate in you.

No time for a good rest in the forest or park? Then choose a long way home from work, look around and think about the pleasant.

There is another factor that strongly influences memories. Our gadgets, be it a smartphone with social networks, a tablet with your favorite game or a laptop.

Firstly, they take our time and take away our attention. Secondly, tons of unnecessary information enters the head through them. For example, you remember how many hours you need to water the beds in the Frenzy Farm or what photo a former colleague put on your profile picture, but the information where the keys were put disappears from your head.

This happens because the "operative" memory of the brain is not infinite, and at the same time it contains things not in order of importance, but those that hit first.

If you don’t poke your nose at gadgets during your lunch break, on the road after a hard day, spending an evening with your family and on weekends, your memory will say “thank you” to you and get your work done.

A gift for memory - quality rest

Nerves "on edge" interfere with remembering new things and remembering the necessary information. Therefore, it is important to take time for personal rest. Aromatherapy, spa treatments, massage are good ways to calm your nerves. Meditation is indispensable for the effective functioning of the brain.

One should not think that this is the lot of the enlightened, and meditation is difficult to learn. The simplest form of meditation is to focus on the sensations in your body or your own breath. Breathe slowly and think "breath-breath-breath" as you do so. 1-2 minutes - and the nerves are calm, and the brain is ready for new great achievements.

In a word, choose the relaxation option you like and devote time to it.

Also, in the process of improving memory, proper nutrition is important. We are not talking about a special diet, it is enough not to eat junk food - fast food, fatty, smoked, sweets and rolls.

brain training

There are many exercises on the Internet to improve memory, supposedly five minutes a day - and brain function will recover and return to full. In fact, when returning to the previous level of memory, it is important to understand two basic things:

• the work of the brain and body are connected;
• work to improve memorization and recall should go according to plan, the brain must be kept in good shape.

Based on the first point, it is clear that physical activity, whether it is jogging in the morning and the gym or jumping rope at home, helps to preserve and improve memory. Why? During exercise, you focus on your body and do not think about informational noise. Secondly, sport affects the metabolism and movement of blood in the body, in particular, to the brain.

By the way, our brain is powered by two substances - oxygen and glucose. Physical activity (preferably in the fresh air) helps the brain to be saturated with oxygen and supply, along with increased blood circulation, enough glucose.

Any physical activity has a beneficial effect on memory. The main thing here is regularity.

The development of fine motor skills (fingers and toes), acupuncture activates the work of nerve cells. They, like communication channels, help us in memory processes. Therefore, after forty, you can find yourself a new hobby: Lego constructor, modeling, calligraphy. So you stimulate the brain through the nerve endings.

So that the brain does not “relax” and the memory does not become like a sieve, it needs to be trained. At the same time, there are different approaches for short-term and long-term memory.

To preserve and improve short-term memory, participation in intellectual games, scanwords, board games for associations is suitable. All that requires extracting a specific fact from an array of memories.

A long-playing memory will be refreshed and restored by a business, for the continuation of which it is necessary to accumulate already studied knowledge. For example, a new foreign language, playing musical instruments, reading works of art. To continue reading the book, you have to remember what happened earlier in the story.

An important point in memory exercises is not to get hung up on the goal, but to make the lesson a habit. When you solve crossword puzzles for your own pleasure, the information you need will be found faster than if you start thinking "I'm doing this to make my memory sharper."

Change the environment more often - new impressions and emotions have a positive effect on brain activity.

Art therapy that trains memory

Another curious and effective method is special drawing.

It is known that left-handed people have a better developed left hemisphere (it is responsible for logic and analytical thinking), right-handed people have a better developed one (it is also responsible for creativity and our emotions). Of course, for a fulfilling life, all these factors will be useful to us.

Drawing with both hands will help develop the activity of the hemispheres. To begin with, with your "non-primary" hand, draw something simple - a cloud, a sun, a flower, perhaps even lines or letters. Then make it harder.

This is how we will develop the so-called “motor cortex”, which will “pull up” the parts of the brain with it.

Complicating the process, we can add another hand to the training, i.e. draw them at the same time.

Food for memory

An important point is food. Foods that are rich in Omega-3 acids will help improve memory - these are fatty sea fish, linseed oil.

As a carbohydrate food, it is still better to choose slow carbohydrates that give energy gradually and without sugar surges that are harmful to both the brain and the body. These include cereals, whole-grain pasta and bread, most fruits (with the exception of the sweetest - figs, bananas, grapes, persimmons). Sweet fruits are also possible, but not abusing.

Good foods that contain tryptophan (this is, as it were, a precursor of serotonin, known as the hormone of happiness) are cottage cheese, cheese, and indeed dairy products, poultry meat. By the way, bananas also contribute to the production of serotonin. So it is ideal to combine a banana with kefir / cottage cheese / milk so that carbohydrates from a sweet fruit are not absorbed quickly, and the benefits of a banana for memory and body are fully received.

There are also special substances that are more likely not medicines in the full sense of the word, but they help optimize both metabolism and brain activity. Mainly:

• Eleutherococcus, which improves cerebral circulation;
• ginseng tincture, which is an adaptogen for all body systems;
• lemongrass seed tincture.

These herbs increase stress resistance, improve the functions of the nervous system and mental abilities of a person.

In a word, proper nutrition, regular intellectual activity and a healthy lifestyle will help prevent memory impairment.

We hope this post has motivated you. Do you want to read other interesting materials? Like and subscribe to the blog.

The causes of memory impairment can be divided into five groups.

1. Brain damage

Everyone knows that memory lives in the brain. But where exactly?
It depends what we are looking for. If long-term memory, then the cortex is responsible for it. But in the hippocampus, located deep in the temporal regions, the mechanisms for transferring information from short-term to long-term memory “sit”. In general, there are a lot of memory centers in the brain, so any damage to this organ can lead to memory impairment. Therefore, the most common causative agents in this group are:
a) traumatic brain injury. Everything is simple here: wherever the blow falls, the probability of its negative impact on any of the memory centers is very high.
b) stroke (cerebrovascular accident). Blood does not flow, the memory centers cease to function fully. What's more, a study by Dutch scientists at St Radboud Medical Center showed that memory can deteriorate even if it's part of the memory - usually the temporal lobe - has not been damaged.
c) oncology. A formed neoplasm (even a benign one) puts pressure on adjacent areas of the brain. In addition, cases of metastasis to other parts of the body are not uncommon.
G) infectious diseases (encephalitis, meningitis). Inflammatory processes occurring in the brain adversely affect both individual memory centers and the entire brain as a whole.

2. Diseases of other organs

Memory can also deteriorate as a result of diseases of other organs:
a) Diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system in general (even if it is "just" an increase in blood pressure). The blood supply to the brain deteriorates, consequently, it ceases to perform its functions fully.
b) Diseases of the internal organs (kidneys, liver, lungs, etc.) We will not dwell on all the organs, we will only talk about the kidneys. US scientists have found that kidney disease is the cause of cognitive decline, incl. deterioration in verbal memory.
The study was based on the measurement of glomerular filtration rate ( GFR - determines the cleansing capacity of the kidneys) and creatinine level ( end product of protein metabolism) in blood. After five years of observation, a pattern was noted: the memory of volunteers deteriorated in direct proportion to the increase in the level of creatinine in the blood and the decrease in the glomerular filtration rate, i.e. with the progression of renal disease.
c) Metabolic disorders. For good brain function, it is necessary that it receives all the necessary substances. As soon as the metabolism of the whole organism is disturbed, the brain begins to experience a shortage in them and redistribute its "resources", and the memory centers are far from the beginning of the "queue".

3. Adverse environmental factors

These factors include:
a) information overload. Each person has his own “limit”, and as soon as the brain receives more information than it can process, it “freezes”. Moreover, information may not be purposefully received, but “chaotically bombing”: the environment is now thoroughly permeated with information flows.
b) lack of vitamins. Of course, many vitamins are important for excellent brain function, but group B occupies the primacy. These vitamins:

support the work of the central nervous system;

protect brain cells from stress, overload and premature aging;

participate in oxygen metabolism;

reduce blood clotting;

participate in the synthesis of certain neurotransmitters that trigger nerve impulses between neurons.
And if all this ensures the functioning of the brain as a whole, then the latter is directly related to memory: there is no impulse, there is no brain function, there is no memory.
c) stressful situations. The Universities of Calgary and Exeter proved that stress ( but not easy, namely the ultimate) blocks the physiological processes associated with memory. Despite the fact that the study was conducted on snails Lymnaea stagnalis, the result is quite revealing: having endured a huge amount of irritating factors, the test subjects forgot absolutely everything that they had been taught earlier. In addition, if one stressful moment only lowers the quality of memory, then a “massive” stress attack creates a cumulative effect, and information generally ceases to linger in memory.
d) lack, inferiority of sleep. In a dream, the body, incl. the brain is restored: instead of the dead, new cells grow. Accordingly, the better and longer the sleep, the longer and more effective the recovery is. Otherwise, the brain does not have time to "rest", loses the ability to both remember and recall.
d) junk food. Many food products are stored and prepared in aluminum utensils. Food coloring also contains aluminum. As a result, by consuming products of the "aluminized" industry, a person provides his body with an excess of aluminum, which, by the way, is extremely slowly and difficult to remove. As a result, headaches appear, thinking becomes lethargic, and memory deteriorates.
“Stimulants” like energy and tonic drinks also contribute. Stimulation, of course, gives a short-term effect, but with regular use, the brain becomes “lazy”.

4. Chronic intoxication

Reasons for this group include:
a) smoking. It practically “decomposes” the brain, disrupts the ability to reason, learn, impairs memory. Moreover, not only active, but also passive smoking has a detrimental effect. Scientists from Northumbria University, who conducted a study on three groups of volunteers ( smokers who constantly breathe smoke, rarely come into contact with smoke), proved that normal memory characteristics were observed only in the healthiest group, while in smokers this indicator was reduced by 30% and for passive smokers 25% .
b) alcohol abuse or total refusal from it. University College London experts have proven that drinking more than 36 g of pure alcohol per day leads to early memory deterioration, but drinking up to 20 g of alcohol per day does not provoke such changes. It is also curious that a complete rejection of alcohol is harmful to memory. Thus, the optimal "schedule" of drinking is 2-4 glasses of wine per week.
c) drug addiction. Even with a single dose, drugs can cause irreparable damage to the brain. For example, after a single use of "harmless" ecstasy - the most neurotoxic synthetic drug - the brain's serotonin system is damaged so much that it can never fully recover. Some drugs work even after you stop using them. In any case, these substances disrupt the very system of impulse transmission, interfere with the order of receiving, sending and processing information by nerve cells.
d) heavy metal intoxication (lead, mercury, thallium, copper, manganese).
Lead occupies a leading position among the causes of industrial poisoning, because there are a lot of places for its use: lead smelters, battery production, printing houses, the production of lead paints, leaded gasoline, ceramic products, crystal glass, etc. In addition, there is a threat of lead damage nearby. major highways.

Mercury has three main sources:

Amalgam ( in dental fillings). A medium-sized filling contains 750,000 micrograms of mercury, of which 10 micrograms are released daily. Plus, mercury is released faster if the amalgam is heated to the temperature of hot tea.

Vaccines. Merthiolate - an organic compound of mercury - is present in vaccines against influenza, hepatitis B, DTP and is more dangerous than its vapors.

Fish. The mercury contained in it has already reacted with protective molecules, and does not pose a significant health hazard. But still, you should not overeat tuna.
In addition, potential sources of mercury in the home include thermometers, thermostats, mercury switches, and barometers.
e) drug abuse. Memory impairment is a side effect of many drugs. If these drugs are abused, a cumulative effect will be created, which is especially pronounced after taking tranquilizers and sedatives.
The list of such pharmaceutical groups also includes antipsychotics, anticholinergics, "heart" drops, barbiturates, anticholinergics, antidepressants, antihistamines.

According to statistics, more than half of the Russian population experience forgetfulness after reaching a certain age threshold.

Undoubtedly, in some people this problem manifests itself earlier, in others later, but both are looking for the causes of the disease and ways to improve memory after 40 years.

Why does memory decline after 40 years

The main reason for the deterioration of memory in people after forty years of age is age-related changes in neurons and neural connections.

The most important factor that affects the process of destruction of brain cells is alcohol consumption.

It has been scientifically proven that with a hangover syndrome that occurs after drinking a large amount of alcohol, brain neurons die off much faster. Therefore, among lovers of strong drinks, by the age of forty, memory deteriorates significantly.

In addition to alcohol, there are other causes of memory impairment, in particular:

• smoking, drug and alcohol addiction;
• sleep disturbance;
• strokes;
• stress;
• traumatic brain injury, brain damage received at any age (i.e., an injury received at a young age can affect the state of memory already in adulthood).

Walking outdoors to improve memory

People over the age of 40 can improve memory by walking in the fresh air. It can be as simple walks in the park or forest, as well as walking with a dog or jogging.

The benefit of walking is that the body is saturated with oxygen. This circumstance is very important for residents of megacities or those who lead a sedentary lifestyle.

With the lifestyle that every second inhabitant of a big city leads, it is impossible to include long walks in the daily schedule. And because of this, the human body is deficient in oxygen.

To avoid such a state, you need to spend at least three hours a day walking. After all, for the proper functioning of brain neurons, they need oxygen.

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American scientists conducted a study in which two groups of people took part. One group did gymnastics in the gym, and the other walked for 45 minutes 3 times a week.

A year later, scientists examined people and came to the conclusion that in gymnasts, brain volume decreased by 1.5%, and walkers increased by 2% in areas that are responsible for memory and planning.

Performance increased when walking was combined with mental arithmetic, logical thinking (problem solving), reading, and memory training.

This experiment showed that prolonged exposure to fresh air helps rejuvenate neurons.

It is important to know! Walking in the fresh air helps not only improve memory after 40 years, but also get rid of other health problems. From such as fatigue, drowsiness, irritability.

Increased ventilation of the lungs. Improves the functioning of the digestive and cardiovascular systems.

How to improve memory (after 40): brain training

There are a lot of training for memory in the form of a game. And they are considered the most effective.

You can improve your memory after 40 with the help of exercises such as:

• Puzzles. Collecting puzzles is useful, as this process develops logical thinking, concentration and attention;
• Board games. Games such as chess and checkers develop logic and attention;
• Crosswords. This lesson is useful in that it makes you think about questions, recall long-forgotten terms, etc.;
• Drawing up a daily routine. This helps to structure the amount of work that needs to be done and not to forget something important. First, you can write it down on paper, and then only memorize and reproduce it in your head during the day.

When looking for an answer to the question of how to improve memory after 40 years, you should pay attention to kinesiology exercises.

Using the techniques of kinesiology, a person can improve health, optimize the most important mental processes: thinking, attention, memory, perception, imagination, hearing and speech. It also improves mental performance.

The easiest exercise is to use your non-dominant hand.

This means that if a person is right-handed, then he should try to write, draw, eat, brush his teeth, take objects, comb his hair, turn pages with his left hand. And vice versa for lefties.

In the process of training, the work of both hemispheres of the brain is synchronized and the efficiency of its activity as a whole increases significantly.

It can also be mirrored. To do this, you need to take a pencil or pen in both hands, it is better if they are of different colors, and draw the same figures, as if one figure is a reflection of the other.

Figures can be geometric, flat, three-dimensional, simple and complex. But you can also write numbers and even words.

There is also an exercise called “random words”. Its essence is that you need to write down the first words that come to mind and then connect them with a story. At first it will be difficult, but after a few trainings everything will turn out easily.

Kinesiology exercises include mandala drawing. You can draw it yourself and then color it, buy a book with mandalas to color in, or print a picture downloaded from the Internet.

Combination of active and passive rest to improve memory

Problems with remembering information can arise from overexertion. To eliminate this risk factor, you need to learn how to dose work and rest.

Interesting fact! Many well-known and prominent personalities, such as Marietta Shaginyan, A. I. Herzen, V. A. Obruchev and others, preferred to do mental work only in the first half of the day, and in the early morning hours.

But besides work, they could arrange their schedule so that they had time to do everything necessary and not get tired.

The main thing that needs to be observed when resting is the correct ratio of passive and active rest.

Passive rest is a walk in the park, going to a cafe or restaurant, relaxing on the beach. Such a rest will help to relax and recuperate, to think about problems and their solutions.

Active recreation is:

• travel to other countries;
• mountain climbs;
• diving;
• skydiving or bungee jumping;
• cycling and much more.

This type of recreation will help relieve emotional stress, distract from problems, learn something new.

But if the schedule does not allow you to often include trips to cafes and trips to other countries, then the best option would be to alternate between different types of mental work.

And also, following the example of the philosopher Voltaire, to divide papers on different topics into different folders and boxes, that is, to structure.

Reading books to improve memory

Improving your memory after 40 is quite possible, and it's not as difficult as it seems. For this you need to read as much interesting literature as possible.

When reading, the reader follows the plot thought, developing events, the brain remembers information about the characters, feelings, fates of the characters.

But in order for reading to bring a greater effect, after reading a chapter or page, you need to reproduce in memory everything that was discussed in the read text. It improves memory, intelligence, and also develops vocabulary.

Among other things, reading helps relieve emotional stress, relax.

Art therapy for memory training

Art therapy helps to cope with memory disorders associated with stress, depression and overexertion.

Art therapy techniques also help to cope with psychosomatic diseases: phobias, fears, self-doubt, isolation, resentment, aggression towards loved ones.

There are several types of such therapy.

Helps to harmonize the internal state, express emotions. It is indicated for those people who cannot express feelings and emotions through speech, suffering from severe depression and acute psychosis.

When drawing, the right hemisphere is involved, which stores non-verbal memory - the memory of things you have ever seen.

Music therapy

Many people have musical compositions associated with some pleasant memories from life.

The principle is that when listening to melodies associated with moments of life, the brain independently reproduces these moments.

Music helps both improve memory after 40 years and relieve emotional stress.

Imagotherapy

This is a reproduction (retelling) of stories and playing situations from life.

This therapy trains memory by memorizing texts and dialogues, and also helps to gain life experience and behavior patterns in some situations.

Foods that improve memory

For the brain to function properly, it needs oxygen and vitamins C, K, E, group B, Omega-3, and microelements such as phosphorus, selenium, and iodine.

Nutrition also influences how to improve memory after 40 years and its work in general.

These substances contain the following products:

• Milk- a source of vitamin B12, which contributes to better assimilation of information. You need to drink 2 glasses a day;
• Garlic- accelerates blood circulation, as a result of which the brain receives more oxygen. With the use of two or three cloves of garlic every day, memory improves;
• sea ​​kale- a source of iodine, helps maintain a clear mind and in some cases increases IQ;
• nuts- a source of B vitamins, E, magnesium and fatty amino acids. Develop thinking and stimulate the brain;
• Honey is a source of glucose. The brain feeds only on carbohydrates, that is, glucose. Glucose is also found in dried fruits.

Medications to improve memory

There is a huge variety of drugs that improve memory. They are available with or without a prescription.

The main drugs are:

• Preparations from the extract of the leaves of "Ginkgo Biloba". They affect the vascular system of the brain, thin the blood, the drug has an antidepressant effect. Struggling with memory loss, anxiety, sleep disturbance;
• Glycine. Preparations containing glycine saturate the medulla with an amino acid. Can be taken to relieve severe mental stress, stress, as well as for sleep disorders;
• Preparations with Eleutherococcus extract- tones the body. It is recommended for use to restore mental, physical performance, in case of overwork. Raises blood pressure.

Be careful! Medicines should be taken only after consulting a specialist.

If you follow a diet, do exercises to increase brain activity, take walks, read books and take drugs, then memory improvement is possible at any age.

From this video you will learn how to improve memory after 40 years, what you need to do for this:

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Memory is an important function of our central nervous system to perceive the information received and store it in some invisible "cells" of the brain in reserve in order to retrieve and use it in the future. Memory is one of the most important abilities of a person’s mental activity, therefore the slightest violation of memory burdens him, he gets out of the usual rhythm of life, suffering himself and annoying those around him.

Memory impairment is most often perceived as one of the many clinical manifestations of some kind of neuropsychic or neurological pathology, although in other cases forgetfulness, absent-mindedness and poor memory are the only signs of a disease that no one pays attention to, believing that a person is such by nature. .

The big mystery is human memory

Memory is a complex process that takes place in the central nervous system and involves the perception, accumulation, retention and reproduction of information received at different periods of time. Most of all, we think about the properties of our memory when we need to learn something new. The result of all the efforts made in the learning process depends on how someone manages to hook, hold, perceive what they see, hear or read, which is important when choosing a profession. From the point of view of biology, memory is short-term and long-term.

Information received in a glimpse or, as they say, “it flew into one ear, flew out of the other” is a short-term memory in which what is seen and heard is postponed for several minutes, but, as a rule, without meaning and content. So, the episode flashed by and disappeared. Short-term memory does not promise anything in advance, which is probably good, because otherwise a person would have to store all the information that he does not need at all.

However, with certain efforts of a person, information that has fallen into the zone of short-term memory, if you hold your eyes on it or listen and delve into it, will be transferred to long-term storage. This also happens against the will of a person, if some episodes are often repeated, have a special emotional significance, or occupy a separate place among other phenomena for various reasons.

Assessing their memory, some people claim that they have a short-term memory, because everything is remembered, assimilated, retold in a couple of days, and then just as quickly forgotten. This often happens when preparing for exams, when information is put aside only for the purpose of reproducing it to decorate a grade book. It should be noted that in such cases, turning back to this topic when it becomes interesting, a person can easily restore seemingly lost knowledge. It is one thing to know and forget, and another to not receive information. And here everything is simple - the acquired knowledge without much human effort was transformed into departments of long-term memory.

Long-term memory analyzes, structures, creates volume and purposefully postpones everything for future use indefinitely. Everything is kept in long-term memory. Memorization mechanisms are very complex, but we are so used to them that we perceive them as natural and simple things. However, we note that for the successful implementation of the learning process, in addition to memory, it is important to have attention, that is, to be able to concentrate on the right subjects.

It is common for a person to forget past events after a while, if they do not periodically extract their knowledge in order to use them, therefore, the inability to remember something is not always to be attributed to memory impairment. Each of us has experienced the feeling when “it is spinning in the head, but it does not come to mind”, but this does not mean that serious disorders have occurred in the memory.

Why do memory lapses happen?

The causes of impaired memory and attention in adults and children may be different. If a child with congenital mental retardation immediately has learning problems, then he will already come to adulthood with these disorders. Children and adults can react differently to the environment: the child's psyche is more tender, so it takes stress harder. In addition, adults have long studied what the child is still trying to master.

Sadly, the trend towards the use of alcoholic beverages and drugs by adolescents, and even by young children left unattended by their parents, has become frightening: cases of poisoning are not so rarely recorded in the reports of law enforcement agencies and medical institutions. But for the child's brain, alcohol is the strongest poison that has an extremely negative effect on memory.

True, some pathological conditions that often cause absent-mindedness and poor memory in adults are usually excluded in children (Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, osteochondrosis).

Causes of memory impairment in children

Thus, the causes of impaired memory and attention in children can be considered:

• Lack of vitamins, anemia;
• Asthenia;
• Frequent viral infections;
• Traumatic brain injury;
• stressful situations ( dysfunctional family, despotism of parents, problems in the team that the child attends);
• Poor eyesight;
• brain tumors;
• Mental disorder;
• Poisoning, alcohol and drug use;
• Congenital pathology, in which mental retardation is programmed (Down's syndrome, etc.) or other (whatever) conditions (lack of vitamins or trace elements, the use of certain drugs, changes in metabolic processes that are not for the better) that contribute to the formation of attention deficit disorder, which, As you know, memory does not improve.

Causes of problems in adults

In adults, the reason that has become a bad memory, absent-mindedness and inability to concentrate for a long time, are various diseases acquired in the process of life:

1. Stress, psycho-emotional stress, chronic fatigue of both soul and body;
2. Acute and chronic disorders of cerebral circulation;
3. Atherosclerosis;
4. Arterial hypertension;
5. Encephalopathy;
6. Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine;
7. Vertebrobasilar insufficiency;
8. Traumatic brain injury;
9. Metabolic disorders;
10. Hormonal imbalance;
11. GM tumors;
12. Alzheimer's disease;
13. Mental disorders (depression, epilepsy, schizophrenia and many others).

Of course, anemia of various origins, lack of trace elements, vegetative-vascular dystonia, diabetes mellitus and other numerous somatic pathologies lead to impaired memory and attention, contribute to the appearance of forgetfulness and absent-mindedness.

What are the types of memory disorders? Among them are dysmnesia(hypermnesia, hypomnesia, amnesia) - changes in memory itself, and paramnesia- distortion of memories, to which the patient's personal fantasies are added. By the way, some of them, on the contrary, are considered by others to be rather a phenomenal memory than its violation. True, experts may have a slightly different opinion on this matter.

Phenomenal memory or mental disorder?

Hypermnesia- with such a violation, people remember and perceive quickly, information set aside many years ago for no reason pops up in memory, “rolls”, returns to the past, which does not always cause positive emotions. A person himself does not know why he needs to keep everything in his head, however, he can reproduce some long-past events to the smallest detail. For example, an elderly person can easily describe in detail (up to the teacher's clothes) individual lessons at school, retell the lithmontage of a pioneer gathering, it is not difficult for him to remember other details related to studying at the institute, professional activities or family events.

Hypermnesia, present in a healthy person in the absence of other clinical manifestations, is not considered a disease, rather, on the contrary, this is exactly the case when they talk about phenomenal memory, although from the point of view of psychology, phenomenal memory is a slightly different phenomenon. People with this phenomenon are able to memorize and reproduce huge amounts of information that is not connected with any special meaning. These can be large numbers, sets of individual words, lists of objects, notes. Such a memory is often possessed by great writers, musicians, mathematicians and people of other professions that require genius abilities. Meanwhile, hypermnesia in a healthy person who does not belong to the cohort of geniuses, but has a high intelligence quotient (IQ), is not such a rare occurrence.

As one of the symptoms of pathological conditions, memory impairment in the form of hypermnesia occurs:

• With paroxysmal mental disorders (epilepsy);
• With intoxication with psychoactive substances (psychotropic drugs, narcotic drugs);
• In the case of hypomania - a condition similar to mania, but not up to it in terms of the severity of the course. Patients may experience a surge of energy, increased vitality, and ability to work. With hypomania, a violation of memory and attention is often combined (disinhibition, instability, inability to concentrate).

It is obvious that only a specialist can understand such subtleties, distinguish between the norm and pathology. Most of us are average representatives of the human population, to whom "nothing human is alien", but at the same time they do not turn the world upside down. From time to time (not every year and not in every locality) geniuses appear, they are not always immediately noticeable, because often such individuals are considered simply eccentrics. And, finally, (perhaps not often?) among the various pathological conditions there are mental illnesses that require correction and complex treatment.

bad memory

Hypomnesia- this type is usually expressed in two words: "bad memory."

Forgetfulness, absent-mindedness and poor memory are observed with asthenic syndrome, which, in addition to memory problems, is also characterized by other symptoms:

1. Increased fatigue.
2. Nervousness, irritability with or without it, bad mood.
3. Headaches.
4. Meteorological dependence.
5. Sleepiness during the day and sleeplessness at night.
6. Changes in blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias.
7. Hot flashes and other autonomic disorders.
8. Chronic fatigue, weakness.

Asthenic syndrome, as a rule, forms another pathology, for example:

• Arterial hypertension.
• Postponed traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• atherosclerotic process.
• The initial stage of schizophrenia.

The cause of impaired memory and attention according to the type of hypomnesia can be various depressive conditions (you can’t count everyone), menopausal syndrome that occurs with an adaptation disorder, organic brain damage (severe TBI, epilepsy, tumors). In such situations, as a rule, in addition to hypomnesia, the symptoms listed above are also present.

"I remember here - I don't remember here"

At amnesia not the whole memory falls out, but its individual fragments. As an example of this type of amnesia, one would like to recall the film by Alexander Gray "Gentlemen of Fortune" - "I remember here - I don't remember here."

However, not all amnesias look like in the famous motion picture, there are more serious cases when memory is lost significantly and for a long time or forever, therefore, several types of such memory impairments (amnesia) are distinguished:

1. dissociative amnesia events that caused psychological trauma are erased from memory. Severe stress causes a protective reaction of the body, and it tries to hide situations that a person cannot survive on his own. From the depths of the unconscious, these events can only be obtained by special methods (hypnosis);
2. retrograde amnesia- a person forgets what happened before the injury (most often this happens after a TBI) - the patient came to his senses, but does not remember who he is and what happened to him;
3. Anterograde amnesia- before the injury (TTM or a strong psycho-traumatic situation), everything is remembered, and after the injury - a failure;
4. Fixation amnesia- poor memory for current events (a person forgets what happened today);
5. total amnesia- all information disappears from memory, including information about one's own "I".

A special type of memory loss that cannot be dealt with is progressive amnesia, which is a progressive loss of memory from the present to the past. The reason for the destruction of memory in such cases is organic atrophy of the brain, which occurs when Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Such patients poorly reproduce traces of memory (speech disorders), for example, they forget the names of household items that they use daily (plate, chair, clock), but at the same time they know what they are intended for (amnestic aphasia). In other cases, the patient simply does not recognize the thing (sensory aphasia) or does not know what it is for (semantic aphasia). However, one should not confuse the habits of “radical” owners to find a use for everything that is in the house, even if it is intended for completely different purposes (you can make a beautiful dish or stand out of a used kitchen clock in the form of a plate).

This is what you need to figure out!

Paramnesia (distortion of memories) also referred to as memory disorders, and among them are the following types:

• Confabulation, in which fragments of one’s own memory disappear, and their place is taken by stories invented by the patient and presented to them “in all seriousness”, since he himself believes in what he is talking about. Patients talk about their exploits, unprecedented achievements in life and work, and even sometimes about crimes.
• pseudo-reminiscence- the replacement of one memory with another event that actually took place in the patient's life, only at a completely different time and under different circumstances (Korsakov's syndrome).
• Cryptomnesia when patients, having received information from various sources (books, movies, stories of other people), pass it off as events experienced by them. In a word, patients, due to pathological changes, go to involuntary plagiarism, which is characteristic of delusional ideas found in organic disorders.
• Echomnesia- a person feels (quite sincerely) that this event has already happened to him (or did he see it in a dream?). Of course, such thoughts sometimes visit a healthy person, but the difference is that patients attach special significance to such phenomena (“go in cycles”), while healthy people simply quickly forget about it.
• Polympsest- this symptom exists in two versions: short-term memory lapses associated with pathological alcohol intoxication (episodes of the past day are confused with long-past events), and the combination of two different events of the same period of time, in the end, the patient himself does not know what happened in fact.

As a rule, these symptoms in pathological conditions are accompanied by other clinical manifestations, therefore, having noticed signs of “déjà vu” in oneself, there is no need to rush to make a diagnosis - this also happens in healthy people.

Decreased concentration affects memory

To violations of memory and attention, the loss of the ability to focus on specific objects include the following pathological conditions:

1. Attention instability- a person is constantly distracted, jumping from one subject to another (disinhibition syndrome in children, hypomania, hebephrenia - a mental disorder that develops as a form of schizophrenia in adolescence);
2. Rigidity (slow switching) from one topic to another - this symptom is very typical for epilepsy (those who communicated with such people know that the patient is constantly “stuck”, which makes it difficult to conduct a dialogue);
3. Lack of concentration- they say about such people: “That’s what a distracted one from Basseinaya Street!”, That is, absent-mindedness and poor memory in such cases are often perceived as features of temperament and behavior, which, in principle, often corresponds to reality.

Undoubtedly, a decrease in concentration of attention, in particular, will have a negative impact on the entire process of memorizing and storing information, that is, on the state of memory as a whole.

Children forget faster

As for children, all these gross, permanent memory impairments, characteristic of adults and, especially, the elderly, are very rarely noted in childhood. Memory problems that arise due to congenital features require correction and, with a skillful approach (as far as possible), may recede a little. There are many cases when the efforts of parents and teachers literally worked wonders for Down syndrome and other types of congenital mental retardation, but here the approach is individual and dependent on different circumstances.

Another thing is if the baby was born healthy, and the problems appeared as a result of the troubles suffered. So here a child can expect a slightly different reaction to different situations:

• Amnesia in children in most cases, it manifests itself as memory lapses in relation to individual memories of episodes that took place during the period of clouding of consciousness associated with unpleasant events (poisoning, coma, trauma) - it is not in vain that they say that children quickly forget;
• Alcoholization adolescence also proceeds differently than in adults - lack of memories ( polympsests) on events occurring during intoxication, appears already in the first stages of drunkenness, without waiting for a diagnosis (alcoholism);
• retrograde amnesia in children, as a rule, it affects a short period of time before an injury or illness, and its severity is not as clear as in adults, that is, memory loss in a child can not always be noticed.

Most often in children and adolescents there is a memory impairment of the type of dysmnesia, which is manifested by a weakening of the ability to remember, store (retention) and reproduce (reproduction) the information received. Disorders of this type are more noticeable in school-age children, as they affect school performance, adaptation in a team, and behavior in everyday life.

In children attending preschool institutions, symptoms of dysmnesia are problems with memorizing rhymes, songs, children cannot participate in children's matinees and holidays. Despite the fact that the kid attends kindergarten all the time, every time he comes there, he cannot find his locker on his own to change clothes, among other items (toys, clothes, towels) it is difficult for him to find his own. Dysmnestic disorders are also noticeable at home: the child cannot tell what happened in the garden, forgets the names of other children, each time he reads fairy tales he perceives as if he hears them for the first time, he does not remember the names of the main characters.

Transient disturbances of memory and attention, along with fatigue, drowsiness and all sorts of autonomic disorders, are often observed in schoolchildren with cerebrosthenic syndrome various etiologies.

Before treatment

Before treating the symptoms of memory impairment, it is necessary to make a correct diagnosis and find out what causes the patient's problems. To do this, you need to get as much information about his health:

1. What diseases does he suffer from? Perhaps it will be possible to trace the connection between the existing pathology (or transferred in the past) with the deterioration of intellectual abilities;
2. Does he have a pathology that directly leads to memory impairment: dementia, cerebrovascular insufficiency, TBI (history), chronic alcoholism, drug disorders?
3. What medications does the patient take and is memory impairment related to the use of medications? Some groups of pharmaceuticals, for example, benzodiazepines, among the side effects, have such disorders, which, however, are reversible.

In addition, in the process of diagnostic search, a biochemical blood test can be very useful, which allows you to identify metabolic disorders, hormonal imbalance, deficiency of trace elements and vitamins.

In most cases, when looking for the causes of memory impairment, they resort to methods neuroimaging(CT, MRI, EEG, PET, etc.), which help to detect a brain tumor or hydrocephalus and, at the same time, to differentiate a vascular brain lesion from a degenerative one.

The need for neuroimaging methods also arises because memory impairment at first may be the only symptom of a serious pathology. Unfortunately, the greatest difficulties in diagnosis are depressive conditions, forcing in other cases to prescribe a trial antidepressant treatment (to find out if there is depression or not).

Treatment and correction

The normal aging process itself involves some decline in intellectual abilities: forgetfulness appears, memorization is not so easy, concentration of attention drops, especially if the neck is “squeezed” or pressure rises, however, such symptoms do not significantly affect the quality of life and behavior in everyday life. Older people who adequately assess their age learn to remind themselves (and quickly remember) about current affairs.

In addition, many do not neglect pharmaceutical treatment to improve memory.

Now there are a number of drugs that can improve brain function and even help with tasks that require significant intellectual effort. First of all, these are nootropics (piracetam, phezam, vinpocetine, cerebrolysin, cinnarizine, etc.).

Nootropics are indicated for elderly people who have certain age-related problems that are not yet noticeable to others. Preparations of this group are suitable for improving memory in violation of cerebral circulation caused by other pathological conditions of the brain and vascular system. By the way, many of these drugs are successfully used in pediatric practice.

However, nootropics are a symptomatic treatment, and in order to obtain the proper effect, one must strive for an etiotropic one.

As for Alzheimer's disease, tumors, mental disorders, here the approach to treatment should be very specific - depending on the pathological changes and the reasons that led to them. There is no single prescription for all cases, so there is nothing to advise patients. You just need to contact a doctor, who, perhaps, before prescribing drugs to improve memory, will send for an additional examination.

Difficult in adults and the correction of disorders of mental activity. Patients with poor memory, under the supervision of an instructor, memorize verses, solve crossword puzzles, practice solving logical problems, however, training, bringing some success (the severity of mnestic disorders seems to have decreased), still do not give particularly significant results.

Correction of memory and attention in children, in addition to treatment with the help of various groups of pharmaceuticals, provides for classes with a psychologist, exercises for the development of memory (poems, drawings, tasks). Of course, the children's psyche is more mobile and better amenable to correction, unlike the adult psyche. Children have the prospect of progressive development, while in older people only the opposite effect progresses.

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