3rd Denver

https://graphicsurf.com/item/people-listening-to-music-vector-free-flat-illustration/         When you listen to a song that you haven’t listened to in a long time do you get a sense of nostalgia? I notice that this happens to me quite often and it surprises me when I remember the lyrics to songs that I haven’t listened to in months or even years. However, studies have shown that lyrics are not the only things music can make you remember. An experiment done by Dan Cohen, a social worker, proved that listening to music can help people with dementia in nursing homes, and because the effects were so moving, there is a documentary on this called Alive Inside .  Dan Cohen would “ ask a resident's family to list the songs or instrumental pieces the person once enjoyed.” After this, Cohen would put together a playlist for them to listen to and while listening to them, people who were once unable to speak began to sing and dance. From continuous practice with “...

Amratha Rao - Week #15 Alzheimer's Disease My friend's grandfather recently passed away after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Without any cure, light medication was his only hope. Her grandfather spent his last few weeks surrounded by his grandchildren, despite not having recognized any of them. His dementia by the time of his death had gotten so severe that he couldn’t even recognize his children or his wife.  Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, accounting for up to “75% of all dementia cases in the world” ( Heerema ). While it may seem like Alzheimer’s Disease affects only the elderly, it is, in fact, a genetically inherited disease with an underestimated mortality rate. Being currently the “sixth leading cause of death” in the United States, Alzheimer’s is a common genetic disorder with almost 44 million cases worldwide. However, the biggest concern around the disease is its diagnosis ( Heerema ). It almost takes 2.8 years on avera...

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20210810/concerning-67-of-calories-kids-and-teens-consume-come-from-ultraprocessed-foods During spring break, I had been fixing my sleep schedule, sleeping early, and waking up early. However, even though my mind feels clearer, my head no longer hurts, and my overall well-being improved, I still found myself having a terrible memory, so I decided to do some research to identify what other factors are there that could contribute to my forgetfulness. Upon doing some quick research, I found out that the Hot Cheetos and the cookies and cream ice cream I have been eating all this time had been playing a role in making my memory suffer. According to Healthline , the high-calorie and low-nutrition highly processed foods we have been eating are the foods that have significant negative impacts on our brains. Our brains have a molecule called a brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF, located in the hippocampus and other areas of the brain. BDNF is crucia...

  Photo Credit: https://yourwordsmith.com/the-misinformation-effect/ When you and your friend are telling a story together, it may often change with countless retellings. It could get a little more dramatic, funnier, or scarier. It may even be hard to agree on some of the details, or you might even recall events with such great differences that you're not even sure if your friend was there. One explanation for this occurrence is called the misinformation effect: when our memory for past events is altered after exposure to misleading information.  Elizabeth Loftus, an American psychologist best known in relation to the misinformation effect, conducted an experiment in the 1970s on the malleability of memory.  She showed the tape of a car crash and asked participants to predict the speed of the cars. Some participants were asked about the cars’ speed after they “hit” each other, and other participants were asked the same question using the word “smashed.” The group ask...

Week 15: What I Learned From a Childhood Memory   – 4/27 - [5:06PM].           I remember many vivid instances in my young life where I have felt completely overwhelmed with doubt like I was swallowed alive by the overpowering fear that I will never be able to escape the obstacle standing in front of me. In those moments I feel so insignificant, so helpless, and so powerless. Yet, despite how impossible those challenges seemed, I managed to overcome them every time. I frequently look back upon those moments and cringe over how small those problems that made me spiral into a never-ending tunnel of darkness actually were in hindsight.    My most prominent memory of feeling absolutely doomed occurred when my mom signed me up for a band audition. For context, I was in the 7th grade back then, and I picked up flute about a year before. I cried when I first found out about the audition a week prior to the audition date. I felt angry and terrified. ...

Memory is unreliable. As time passes, our memory of certain events either fade or alter details so that it can't be fully trusted. Studies have shown that "eyewitness accounts of crime are susceptible to eyewitness accounts of crime are very susceptible to after-the-event suggestion and influence, and, thus, highly unreliable." Memory is also "malleable," and findings show that completely innocent people can be convinced and confess to crimes they did not do. A study published in 2015 in the journal Psychological Science  includes a social experiment where a group of students were told by researchers about a false event that never happened. In only three hours, 70% of them were convinced. For the experiment, the researchers reached out to the participating students' caretakers, and was able to retrieve some information about events that happened in their past. They then interviewed the students three times each for 40 minutes. In the first interview, the stu...

        Why Do We Remember What We Remember? Kirti Kande  Why are some images, events, and actions more impactful and memorable in our minds compared to others? You would think after all so much progress in technology and medicine we would have figured out the answer to this question looming inside our minds; sadly the answer is still unknown. “No scientist is perfectly sure how the brain physically sorts and stores all the information — and all the types of information — that gets encoded into memories”. Finding out the answer to this question may be very beneficial. The answer can improve our education system, fix memory lapses, and help people who have impaired memory. Imagine if we knew the answer to how to make memorable images, then classrooms would know which images would remain in the children's minds longer and we, as a society, can “help design a more memorable world”. When scientists at MIT tried to see which images would be more impactful with a ran...