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Memory is your capability of storing, encoding, recalling and retaining information or experiences from the past in your brain.

From names of different people to formal numbers, addresses and long digital structures, our brain has to hold a rather endless reservoir of information. How can we recall, reproduce, restore and read all this information without any difficulty? During learning a new thing, brain cells undergo from several structural and chemical changes. Information transforms into memory through altering the strength or number of relations between different brain cells. Scientists are digging down more about the connection of brain and memory and their working since long. They are also interested in finding out ways to boost storage and memory formation and disorders and reasons of memory loose.

You know the very first step in the memory creation process is Memory Encoding. It is basically a biological process with all roots in our senses, and it starts with perception. Take the example of a persons memory, you were deeply involved with? When you met them first, your brain registered were the memories of their physical features such as their height, skin color, eyes and so on. This was done by your visual system while your auditory system recalls the way they spoke or how they laughed and your sense of smell might also have noticed their perfume etc.

Each of these senses moved toward a special part of brain called Hippocampus. These perceptions are integrated here and made them one.

Hippocampus along with another part of the brain is known as the Frontal Cortex. This portion analyzes all inputs and decides which one among them is worth to remember; those worth-remembering goes to the long-term memory portion.

Despite the fact that memory-making process begins with perception (external), it includes chemical processing and electrical language. In it, nerve cells meet with other cells at Synapse (all brain actions occur here); electrical pulses transfer messages across the gaps of these cells. This transformation and or electric firing release especial messengers called neurotransmitters . These transmitters fill the gaps between these cells by sticking with them. This enables each cell to make 1000 types of links like that. (An average human brain can form 100 trillion synapses in this manner). Electric impulses are received in a particular portion of the brain called Dendrites. These are feathery slants that can go to neighboring brain cells easily.

The connections or relations of these cells are changing all the time, so are not concrete. They work like a network and arrange themselves by forming groups. The synapse becomes stronger when a cell sends message to another. Therefore, more signals mean more powerful connection. And with every single experience, new physical wiring is done in the brain and its organization and arrangement is totally dependent on how you utilize it. This flexibility (scientific term is plasticity) is a blessing for human beings because it helps it in rearrangement of the brain cells, if ever they are smashed up.

So, more experience means more coding and new memories occur. Another thing that is worth-mentioning here is more concentration and attention empowers memory encoding. It is not possible for a human being to concentrate on all things, all the time, so the routine things are all filtered out; while a few things only passes in your conscious knowledge. Scientists say that if you begin noticing every single detail, your memory would be overloaded before your arrival at the office in the morning.

Memory loss is the biggest trouble that most of us face due to many reasons for instance stroke, head injury, stress, sleeplessness, aging and so on. However, there could be other problems that affect a human memory or working of the brain such as some people are not very good at memorizing things for no apparent reason, some students cannot recall lessons that they just prepared last night, some people start forgetting things easily, though physically perfect and mentally stable etc. We shall not go into these details as there is a lot of information already spread about them. But things worth-considering here are looking for solutions to these problems. Moreover, healthy human beings should also try improving their memory.