What can a person do/take to improve the MEMORY skills?
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dont follow lay people dude, yes cross word puzzles and or high brain situlated things would work, but lets face it. it all comes done to your nutrition, if you increase antioxidants and phytochemmicals food mostly in veggies and fruits, whole grains lean meats non or low fat milk, and the omega 3 fatty acid (your brain is 60% fat) the DHA is the best compent of omega 3 for the brain, (get it mosyly from fish/fish oil, and to a lesser extent flaxseeds and flaxseed oil (some people cant convert the flax to the DHA) for antioxidants try eating healthy so your internal antioxidant enxymes function better and your mictrocodra in the cells produce maxuim energy, then you'll learn fairly rapidly (alpha lopic acid is an all purpose diverse antioxidant protecting like all of the cell and regenerating all ther anti oxidants from its free radical forms back to its functional form. with out comprmising itself shit like that dude, study nutrition and antioxidants, it might pervent the  degerative diseases that 85% of us will get
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Focus FActor.\nGinko Biloba helps improve short term memory.\nBlueberries are good for memory.\nThis may sound silly, but there is an ingredient called aluminum chloryl hydrate. This is found in MANY deodorants. It is absorbed into the bloodstream & goes to the brain where it destroys memory. Find a deodorant that does not have this in it.\nAlso, stop cooking with aluminum pots/pans. And don't use aluminum foil, if you can help it.\nOmega 3 (Fish oil) is helpful.\nAn anti-oxidant supplement along with a good protein supplement will help improve memory.
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Improving your memorising really depends on what kind of learner you are..\n - If you are visual you need to associate things with images or set them out in a way that is easy for you to understand. You can work on your visual memory by drawing diagrams, staring at them for a while, then re-drawing the diagram on a blank page until you remember the whole thing. This helped me with a lot of biochemistry exam questions!\n - If you're an audio learner, you need to hear what you're trying to learn. You can do this by recording your voice reciting what you need to learn or by telling someone else what you need to remember (even if it's an inanimate object or a pet, it actually works).\n - If you learn by actually doing things, then the best way is to write out what you need to learn and keep on writing until you remember.\n\nAs for help with getting extra marks in exams, the best method is to start with the questions you know you can answer easily first. Then if you hit a question that is taking you too long, leave it and then come back to it later. And if there's something you don't remember as a part of a question, at least attempt to answer what you can because you can grab extra marks without answering the whole question.\n\nGood luck! :)
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Make sure you eat well (particularly low GI food, as it will give you a boost over an extended period rather than something like chocolate which picks you up for 5 minutes and then dumps you again worse than you were before!).  Drink plenty of water, eat regularly, Bananas are supposed to be brain food, as is anything containing lots of Vitamin B.\n\nDon't stay up late, make sure you sleep well (8 hours a night!).\n\nApparantly Co Enzyme Q10 is supposed to help things like memory, as is Gingko and Ginseng - I find that two latter things make me hyper, but it is different for everyone!
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1) do multiplication problems in your head  for 10 minutes before you go to sleep.  \n\n2) Learn three new words   every  other day and spend the\n       next day trying to use them.\n\n3) Use mnemonic devices to remember lists.\n     If you have a list of several items, make a sentence where the first letter of each word corresponds to the first letter of each item in the list.  \n    Example:  the 5 senses are --hearing, smell, sight, taste, touch.   H,S,S,T,T\nYour sentence might be :  He Should Stop Telling Tales.\n4) Practice memorizing states and capitals.  Little by little and every night for a little while.  This will help your concentration\nand will keep your memory active.\nRepetition is the key.\nWhen you have all the states perfected, start on the countries of the world and the periodic chart.\nMemory is like any other skill; you have the ability, but it requires regular practice.\nGood luck!
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Here are two things that may work for you. I had a friend tell me once that they would study by using the melody of a song. They would take the information they needed to know and memorize in the melody of their favorite songs. This way they knew the melody and words to the song and by replacing the lyrics with the subject they were studying they could remember what they needed to know.\n\nAlso, I had a teacher once tell some tips for remembering things. If he needed to remember a persons name, he would associate it with something to help him remember. If he needed to remember where he put his keys, when he would put them down he would imagine and act as though he was going to slam them right through the table. This way he would remember doing that and remember where he put them.\n\nHe also said he had a trick for studying for finals. What he would do is take the time to right up all his notes from the year/semester for the class. Doing this will help get you started studying because you will remember some of what you type. He would then start to memorize his notes. Taking away more and more as he remembered it until he would read all of his notes back to himself without looking at the paper once.\n\nHope this helps
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Memory is something that has to be trained. The more time you spend working on learning things the better you will learn them.\n\nOther than that, don't cram, study consistently throughout the semester and study in small increments of like 1/2 an hour to an hour. Then take a break before coming back to it.
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Study everyday with someone and study only some each time.  Then practice applying the skills or write all the facts down in color(studys show that you remember things better when you write in color)
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You can improve your memory in many ways.  For your particular case it is important to know what the cause of a declining memory is.  Is it lack of mental stimulation, lack of appropriate diet, exercise, or perhaps even depression.\n\nMany of the things listed before me are good recommendations.  But the thing that you can do to make your memory stronger is to exercise it.  In other words, lift mental weights.  You could even do that here on Yahoo answers.  Find questions other people have that you would also like to know the answer to and look up the information and answer the question for that person.\n\nGood luck.
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Simply put, just memorize more and more often. Look at something every day for 30 mins and chances are, you will remember it.\n\nYou can also use visual cues to memorize something. For example, if you have to go golfing, out to dinner, and buy a hat, you might think about a guy wearing a hat, swinging a golf club, with a piece of food in his mouth, then you'll remember all three.\n\nAlso, understanding is an important part. If you understand what a definition means, then you'll remember it better. Write down that definition and say it aloud just as often as you read it, and you'll remember 3x better than if you had just scanned it over.\n\nAs for diet, it doesn't really matter. Try to eat something healthy, that will get the body fuels pumping. Plenty of sleep, and you'll remember.
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My doctor recommended word puzzles. Crossword puzzles, Sudoku, word puzzles (where you circle words). He said the more you test your brain the more it will boost your memory. He did not recommend any vitamins or foods.
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start making lists before bed of things you need to do the next day. Also, get a calendar with large spaces to write things in and start keeping a journal of interesting/important things that happen and when. You'll have this to look back on when you need to remember something and ya never know, you might just find out some interesting things about yourself in the process.
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Try writing it down, rewriting it.  Put into memory flash cards so you can look at them, write 5 bullet points and try to remember them, talk about them, write about them.  Test yourself, because you probably remember more than you think.  Be positive if you are positive you tend to remember more i have found.  Take a break if you have been working to long then you won't remember anything!  Take 5 Min's get a drink something to eat.  Don't read a book though it clouds up your memory of what you need to remember it confuses all the facts!!!!!
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Concentration issues stem from numerous things. Too much caffeine, being ADD, or vitamin deficiencies can all cause you to not perform at your best.\n\nI recommend taking at the very least, one multivitamin a day to start. Also, regular exercise has proven to increase bloodflow to the brain which, in turn, increases memory retention. Finally there are a number of activities which help as well, I'll list a few here:\n\n- Crossword puzzles are very good for maintaining mental health.\n- Mental association exercises. You will need to get a book or do further research on this one. But there are mental tricks you can use to remember names, lists of objects, and so on. For instance, I use a name association to remember people's names. I think of some outstanding feature of a person when I meet them and integrate it (mentally) with their name. That and I repeat the name a few times in conversation. That is just one item though.\n- There are also a new breed of drugs hitting the market. Do a search for "smart drugs" or nootropics. This is a strange area but some people swear by the stuff and I wouldn't be surprised if it really booms in the next few years.
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Eat almonds everyday...or take memory tablets..\n\nbut best way which i follow is take sufficient rest..eat good and healthy food...dont think too much about anything...even life is stressful....to minimse walk in fresh air...refresh yourself and your brain which will definately help you to improve your memory..\n\nHope this helps!!!
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practice and practice. \ndo mind games, memory games, the more you practice your memory, the better it gets. works for everybody, young or old\ngood luck
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I've done a lot of research on this issue. The simple answer is:\n1. Adopt good eating habbits: Eat a potato, mellon or such other stuff regularly. It deals with the physical aspects of your memory.\n\n2. Adopt good nervous habbits: This way you can do a work with dedication.\n\n3. Drink water more and more, atleast 8 glass daily.\n\n4. Sleep good enough.\n\n5. Change your reading habbits: like take every question easy....stroll through the stuff before digging into it......and make good revision routine......\n\nIs the answer sufficient?