Memory Loss: When Should You Worry?

You no longer remember where you put your keys, the name of a famous actor, a word you keep “on the tip of your tongue.” Fear of being touched Alzheimer’s disease. However, as Véronique Lefebvre des Noëttes, geriatric psychiatrist at Limeil-Brévannes (AP-HP), underlines, the loss of information does not mean that it has disappeared from the brain. “In 99% of cases, we find keys, name, word with some clues. » And, far from being pathological, forgetfulness is essential.

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“Forgetting and memorizing are two partners: we cannot retain everything, and forgetting allows us to retain the essentials”, Francis Eustach, a neuropsychologist in charge of a research unit devoted to the study of human memory at Cannes, explains. Not remembering is so that we don’t clutter our brains with useless information. Also…