Over 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and one third of people over 70 have severe memory loss that affects their daily routines.
What forms memory and where do we form memories?
We form and store memories in our hippocampus in the brain. Henry Molaison had his hippocampi removed in 1957 to cure his severe epilepsy and that surgery prevented him from storing new experiences and making memories. It seemed like the hippocampus was the main memory center.
Before I move on take this memory quiz posted on MedScape. Don't forget.
How much do you really know about memory? How it works, what factors affect it and how we can preserve it?
Back to Henry Molaison. It turns out that H.M. was able to learn new procedural information, form new habits and acquire new skills. Neuroimaging techniques demonstrated that we use the hippocampus to imagine what took place in our past or what could take place in our future. The hippocampus is needed to process certain complex spatial and visual discrimination tasks and linguistic activities.
Memory occurs on the molecular level, synaptic level, cellular level, neural assembly and through networks. The experts clasify memory in three stages - encoding, consolidation and retrieval.
Encoding involves processed information that will be stored in memory. Consolidation is stabilized encoded information that becomes permanent memories. This happens in two ways - synapes stabilize the information and the brain adapts to accomodate the formation of memory.
Contrary to popular belief - multi-tasking is detrimental to memory consolidation.
What does this look like in patient's with Alzheimer's?
Alzheimer's disease initially presents with difficulty recalling specific life events that involve encoding and retrieving connected information. Parkinson's affects learning that requires immediate feedback and other dementias have difficulty with word retrieval and or meanings. They can be marked by speech impairments.
These conditions get progressively worse if they are not addressed. I use RX homeopathic formulas, remove all gluten, dairy and sugar, advocate aerobic exercise, low to no alcohol and prescribe several brain enhancing nutraceuticals based on Dr. David Perlmutter's work. My patients take Xymogen's Brain Sustain, Mitochondrial Renewal Kit and NeuroActives.
I increase oxygen utilization in the brain with I.V ozone therapy and ozone inhalation. Our patients exclaim how they think better for weeks. Ozone treats the root cause of all chronic disease - decreased oxygen utilization.
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