The brain is a bit of a mystery, really. Although a great deal of research has been carried out, there are still many things that we don’t yet understand about how the brain works, how memories are formed, and how they are recalled. But there are many things that we do know: principles and effects that we can harness to make our memory more powerful and long-lasting. That’s what I am going to be talking about in a whole series of blog posts, and today I’m giving you some background info.
That blob of grey stuff inside your cranium is home to billions of brain cells, called neurons. Each neuron can connect to up to 10,000 other neurons, so there is a staggeringly huge number of potential connections that our brain cells can make with each other.
Your brain, although only accounting for about 2% of the body’s mass, consumes 20% of the oxygen you take in and 25% of the glucose that’s coursing through your bloodstream. It is a massive organic supercomputer and, amazingly, it’s re-wiring itself all the time. Continue reading “Cracking the memory code”