How Does Our Brain Store Memories?

Memory is one of the most complex processes of the brain. Structures and processes involved in the storage and retrieval of information are necessary to exist in the world. But how does it work? Let's find out.

[sharathkumarhk]

Watching this video be like, "Brain Trying to understand Brain" 😂😂

[gobi]

*The brain is learning how brain store*


*The brain commented on the video how brain works*

[scottycz]

Why do I always watch brain videos when I'm high?

[StygianOrange]

But will I remember how I remember things?


*THE PLOT THICKENS*

[D.H.]

The best kind of memory is nostalgic memory. There is nothing like a fond remembrance of something which leads to a warm, fuzzy feeling. It just kinda makes you smile.

[Sychius]

My memory is awful. Especially when doing exams/etc it can be a super-hard time because I struggle to recall much at all.

[madsern]

"Now im not saying that this is done in some sort of bionary arrangement like actually data, because honestly i dont know" Really got me

[jonathanwick]

The amazing thing its... you can also remember what you thought about. Non sensory information can be stored.

[SUP-BITCHES]

I only have a 20gb memory I will be buying a 1tb later on

[rydersonthestorm]

The thing I want to study so badly is how your brain remembers chronology of memories. The feedback loop to know where you are in the past is so freaking interesting.

[danermanerkider]

If memories are stored chemically by how neurons and molecules are arranged, that means there must be a limit to how many memories one can store. I wonder if we will ever discover that number. Also, does that mean, theoretically, memories can be copied by arranging the molecules and atoms in a neuron to the same way they are arranged in someone else? Can we know exactly what specific neurons are responsible for a certain memory in an individual too? Lots of questions, I know, but it's too interesting.

[viciousracket]

I've got a test on memory today and this totally refreshed my brain, thanks!

[gamruul]

Now it's stored in my brain
Something that's about brain storage

[AlanAC]

Cool but the important part is at 2:26, and you don't know it :). Probably no one does.
You explained how the brain organizes short term memories to create long term memories. You didn't answer what the title asks.

[primodernious]

memories are not stored in the neural network. it is stored in the neurons themselves. its stored in dna in somthing called neurospheres that contain somthing called stemcells that encode and decode chemical information that holds memories. all the neurons in your brain encode and decode some information each of all the 90 billion cells. the neural firing is just transducers to drive the chemisty from one neuron to the next. its a mix of chemicals that holds emotions and memories in fragments that is being triggered by activating chemical receptors in the receiving neuron that retrive genetic information related to those of the sender neuron. neurons works on the inside like the network itself. inside a neuron there are small analog circuit boards that send and receive chemcial messages just like the neural network, how ever these circuits are more like machines than actual neurons, but the neuron does have internal comunication just like the entire brain does, exept that these signals also drives the very machinery of the cell itself and not just information transfer like the brain network.

[JonnyFails]

Well, with Alzheimer's, the reason a person forgets things are because of neural pathways breaking down.
P.S. This means those memories are gone. You wont get them back, regardless of the magic potion vultures try to pawn off to you in order to take advantage of your grief. But, there is SOME form of regaining memories. If you can reverse the degradation of those neural pathways, and stimulate the production of new ones, you can trick the brain into thinking it remembers things. Don't get confused, the actual memories are gone; but you can tell someone about what happened enough times (if the process is reversed) and they will start "remembering" it. What they're really remembering is your description though - and this isn't just Alzheimer's. Healthy brains are tricked into "remembering" things all the time. Our memory isn't perfect, and is highly suggestible. That means the short term kind of rewires the long term. If you have a group of 20 people witness a crime, in plain view, and ask them to describe the criminal - you'll get 20 different answers. It's partially because, in your long term memory, you already have a pre-concieved notion of what a "criminal" looks like, and your short term memory tries to fill in the blanks; but odds are you have no short term memory of the event by the time you're asked. So the short term memories you're using actually come from pretty much right on the spot from where you're at; and you'll even forget most of the descriptions you gave moments later.
Memory is fucking weird.

[wintersoldier]

i thought brain has his own networking system
and every brain is connected through bus networking

[igotlovetheballers]

One of the things I remember so well from one of my university courses (I'm not fancy, I'm Canadian lol) is that thing when you try to remember something and can't and then 3 months later you shoot up in bed and burst out "It was a llama!" or some shit, your amazing brain was just scanning away still working on its task the whole time. Just. Fuck.

[alizahreddine]

What I understood from this video: memory is amazing!

[mohnishsatidasani]

We adopted the same concept as primary and secondary memory and incorporated it into computers. Thanks for explaining this in an awesome manner.