The ultimate silent Disease in the elderly is the non-optimal functioning of the brain. It is a well know tenet in anti-aging literature that cognitive health in old age goes hand-in-hand with physical health.  The normal aging process causes the nervous system to slow down and become dysregulated.  In the elderly, Neurological Dysregulation Syndrome is expressed in the form of cognitive deficits such as memory loss; however this dysregulation goes beyond memory loss in that it involves every biological function in the body.  Once that is recognized, maintaining brain function becomes a principal and indispensable pathway to health maintenance in the elderly as well as to enhanced functionality along the way. BrainCore Therapy will enhance memory, improve sleeping patterns and provide a proven vehicle for maintaining neurological performance at an optimal level at any age.

Memory
Memory is very complex and a little mysterious. There is a lot to know about the way one can organize a lifetime of memories. Research has helped clarify several missing elements in the traditional three-stage memory model. One can now understand the way information is changed as it is encoded, stored and then later retrieved. These three processes can be described similarly to the memory of a computer.

The first step to remembering a piece of information is encoding. It is the process of translating information into neural codes that will be retained in memory. In other words, it is first getting the information into one's brain. The brain encodes sensory information (sound, visual, touch, etc.) into a neural code that it can understand and use. This step is similar to a computer in the sense that to put information into a computer, you need to type it in on the keyboard. Then the computer translates it into its own language so that it can understand it and be able to use it at a later time.

The second step is to store it. Storage is the process of retaining neural coded information over time. The encoded information is then stored in the brain. In computers the information is stored on a disk or hard drive which is very similar to the way the brain works. The information is kept there until it is needed in the future.

The final step in memory is retrieval. It is the process of recovering information from memory storage. Retrieval requires searching and locating the appropriate information and bringing it out of storage, into conscious awareness where it can be used or, in the case of a computer, to the monitor so that it can be read off the screen.

Memory and Neuroplasticity
Each of these processes requires strong synaptic connections between neurons that are communicating this information to different areas of the brain.  The efficiency of the pathways involved in memory is affected by a process known as Neuroplasticity.  The concept of Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the nervous system to change or reshape in response to how often a particular pathway is used.  Here is an analogy to help you understand the concept of Neuroplasticity and how it is related to memory:

Suppose you were traveling down a road in the middle of the night and you come upon a bridge that requires you to pay a toll in order to cross.  You approach a long line of toll booths of which only 2 booths are open.  Given that it is the middle of the night there is very little traffic and the 2 tollbooths can handle the number of cars without any problem.  You slow down, pay your toll and cross the bridge.  Now suppose you approached that same bridge at rush hour when the traffic was heavy and suppose that there were still only 2 tollbooths open.  Obviously there would be a back up and only a certain number of cars would be allowed to pass.  In order to make the traffic flow more efficiently, the department of transit would open more tollbooths in proportion to the number of cars trying to pass.  As more tollbooths open, the bottleneck would open up and more cars would be able to cross the bridge faster.  In our analogy, the bridge that we need to cross is the synapse or space between each neuron in the memory pathway.  When there is very little traffic along the neurological pathway, there may only be a few connections (or tollbooths) open.  As we use the pathway, the number of neurological signals trying to cross the synapse increases.  In response to this increase the nervous system opens new connections to accommodate this increase in signals.  This opening of new connections (or tollbooths) is Neuroplasticity.

Each of the three phases of memory; encoding, storage, and retrieval require strong neuroplastic synapses.  The problem is as we get older, like so many other physiological processes, the ability to open new tollbooths between neurons becomes hindered.  Our nervous system finds it harder to transmit the signals efficiently and we start to have trouble encoding, storing and retrieving memories.

BrainCore Therapy protocols are designed to improve the brain’s ability to open new tollbooths.  Through the BrainCore Therapy Training, the ability to encode, store and retrieve memories is strengthened.  Patients are better able to access short and long term memories.

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