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Title: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: melaniejs on 11/03/2020 11:11:58
Tshidi asks:

What can one do to improve memory and concentration. I easily get distracted and forget something I could have learnt in few minutes.

Can anyone help Tshidi?
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: duffyd on 31/03/2020 14:50:29
Tshidi asks:

What can one do to improve memory and concentration. I easily get distracted and forget something I could have learnt in few minutes.

Can anyone help Tshidi?
Stimulants improve concentration.
Practicing certain techniques can increase the total sum of data we can retain. Working memory is limited to about 7 items in most people, like a 7 digit phone number, unless the numbers combined represent something else like 1776.
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: duffyd on 31/03/2020 15:02:07
I'm new and don't know how to start a new topic, but I want to offer the following. Let me know where and how to place it if you don't mind.
Whenever I've mentioned this to others, I get less than an enthusiastic reaction. Nevertheless, I believe in the near future we will create a Frankenstein like creature. To preserve and sustain a working human brain using strictly artificial means, cannot be far off.
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: Colin2B on 31/03/2020 17:45:04
I'm new and don't know how to start a new topic, but I want to offer the following. Let me know where and how to place it if you don't mind.
If, for example, you want to create a topic around the likelihood of creating a Frankenstein body, first select the topic area eg Physiology and Medicine and at the top of the list of topics you will see box ‘New Topic’. Start your post as a question in both the title and the opening post.
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: duffyd on 01/04/2020 00:09:06
I'm new and don't know how to start a new topic, but I want to offer the following. Let me know where and how to place it if you don't mind.
If, for example, you want to create a topic around the likelihood of creating a Frankenstein body, first select the topic area eg Physiology and Medicine and at the top of the list of topics you will see box ‘New Topic’. Start your post as a question in both the title and the opening post.

Thanks much
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: evan_au on 01/04/2020 10:17:19
Quote from: OP
What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Get enough sleep....
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: duffyd on 01/04/2020 12:09:50
Tshidi asks:

What can one do to improve memory and concentration. I easily get distracted and forget something I could have learnt in few minutes.

Can anyone help Tshidi?

If you feel that your ability to concentrate is compromised to the point where it interferes substantially in major areas of your life, see a medical specialist. It is well established that most children with severe attentional challenges do not out grow them, as once believed.
Title: Re: What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Post by: evan_au on 01/04/2020 22:35:41
Quote from: OP
What can one do to improve memory and concentration?
Get regular exercise (if that's permitted in your part of the world, at the moment...)

Healthy body means healthy brain!