You forget a person? You confuse the names of the children? Or do not remember why they came to the kitchen? Occasional memory lapses bother many people. Why do we always forget something? Can forgetfulness be a symptom of the disease?
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In the doorway
Yes, you did not seem to cause "memory lapses" occur to you because of the doorways of houses in your home. And do not rush to close the article, now explain this phenomenon. Scientists from the University of Notre Dame in the US Navali is the "effect of the doorway." When a person moves from one room to another, he forgets why he had come - as if the memory is cleared. The researchers conducted an experiment. They were asked to move things from one room to another. The test is done in virtual reality. All was well until the moment when it was not necessary to move things to another room - they forgot why come. Scientists believe that our brain focuses on the task before it is completed, the transition to another room he regards as the end of the problem - hence the forgetfulness.
Playing memories
Canadian scientists have conducted other studies. They asked a group of subjects to remember information in a variety of conditions. Someone is constantly distracted, someone gave little time, another memorizing isolated a lot of time etc. Scientists have learned that human memories are either complete, or as a reference. Familiarization or fragmentary recollection we often observe in life. For example, do you know that have seen the movie, but can not recall or remember the end of a person's face, but do not remember the name.
fantasies
Psychoanalysis says that our memories - no more than a fantasy on the theme of what is happening. That is the event we do not remember the way it really was. A traumatic experience can "erase", but repressed memory will still cause psychological discomfort.
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Forgetfulness - a symptom of depression
If you notice for a severe forgetfulness can the reason lies in a depression. Just a short "off" memory is nothing short of a defense mechanism of the psyche, which is now bad.
harbinger diseases
Excessive forgetfulness may indicate impending Alzheimer's disease, Diabetes, degenerative disc disease, atherosclerosis, thyroid diseases.
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