SocialPipeline 01/05/2012 (a.m.)

• http://www.unige.ch/cyberdocuments/theses2003/RivaraC-B/these_body.html

  tags: brain Anatomy

• Long-term memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  tags: brain

  • Types of memory

     

    The brain does not store memories in one unified structure, as might be seen in a computer's hard disk drive. Instead, different types of memory are stored in different regions of the brain.^{[citation needed]} LTM is typically divided up into two major headings: declarative memory and implicit memory (or procedural memory).^[3] Computer programs store information similarly with a separate data section and code section.

     
     
    1. Explicit memory/Declarative memory refers to all memories that are consciously available. These are encoded by the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and perirhinal cortex, but consolidated and stored elsewhere. The precise location of storage is unknown, but the temporal cortex has been proposed as a likely candidate.^{[citation needed]} Declarative memory also has two major subdivisions: 
       • Episodic memory refers to memory for specific events in time
       • Semantic memory refers to knowledge about the external world, such as the function of a pencil.
       • Implicit memory/Procedural memory refers to the use of objects or movements of the body, such as how exactly to use a pencil or ride a bicycle. This type of memory is encoded and probably stored by the cerebellum and the striatum.^{[citation needed]}
        
     

    There are various other categorizations of memory and types of memory that have captured research interest. Prospective memory (its complement: retrospective memory) is an example.

     

    Emotional memory, the memory for events that evoke a particularly strong emotion, is another. Emotion and memory is a domain that can involve both declarative and procedural memory processes. Emotional memories are consciously available, but elicit a powerful, unconscious physiological reaction. They also have a unique physiological pathway that involves strong connections from the amygdala into the prefrontal cortex, but much weaker connections running back from the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala.^{[citation needed]}

• Nano Patents and Innovations: Tapping The Brain Orchestra To Better Treat Brain Illnesses

  tags: brain Neuron

  • The electrode records the sounds from the whole orchestra of nerve cells surrounding it and there are numerous contributors. One cubic millimetre can contain as many as 100,000 nerve cells.
    

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