Course Description:
The 6-hour INR Webinar “How We Remember, Why We Forget” presents a comprehensive analysis of the most important thing our brain does besides keeping us alive: learning to adapt and cope with the world by storing and retrieving memories. All health and mental health professionals should understand the process of human memory and how it massively affects our daily personal and professional lives. Everything you know, nearly everything you do, and who you think you are as a person are all products of human memory. As the novelist Stephen King says, “A person’s memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It’s you.” How we perceive the world and how we think and act everyday are largely influenced by our memories. The seminar will describe how we learn by the processes of encoding, consolidating, and retrieving our memories. There will also be a discussion of how and why we also forget many of our memories and why this is sometimes bad but sometimes necessary. Professionals attending the seminar will learn that there are two separate long-term memory systems in the brain that are independent of each other and processed by different structures in the brain: memories for facts (what you know) and memories for procedures (how you do things). In fact, in some brain disorders, one of these memory systems can be literally destroyed while the other may still be functional. Attendees will learn that our memories can be very accurate and detailed in some ways and yet be faulty and full of errors in other ways. For example, juries and judges in legal proceedings commonly believe that the eyewitness testimony of witnesses is highly accurate and should be strongly relied upon, but many research studies show that such recall often contains false memories. Aging also affects memory with some of our memory abilities declining as we get older. How normal aging affects memory will be presented along with a description of common age-related memory and amnesia disorders such as mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. A lot of us worry about forgetting things, especially as we get older, and the seminar will describe evidence-based techniques that can be practiced to help improve memory. On the other hand, there are rare individuals among us who do not seem to be able to forget! The seminar will present a fascinating description of people who have nearly perfect recall of their past experiences in life and how their brains are structurally different from nearly all of the rest of us.
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Institute for Natural Resources
CE Credits: 6
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