Dr. Majid Fotuhi

Because things that are emotional really make an impression on our brains.

But you don't remember what you did the week before.

If I ask you the Wednesday before, what did you do?

You probably won't remember.

Or that Thursday or Friday, you won't remember the details of the previous days.

We don't remember every lunch we ever eat, every dress we ever wear, we don't.

And it's a good system.

We only remember things that are really important to us.

That's thanks to hippocampus.

Hippocampus is the point where either information is discarded

or kept for the future.

And when somebody asks the same question multiple times, it means that hippocampus is not doing its job.

And this is where I told you that I help my patients improve.

Now, next level after that is when somebody not only asks the same question multiple times, but they start having behavioral problems.

They have other character personality things that they did not have before.

or they may get lost in their own neighborhood, or they may forget names of family members, or they put the keys in the fridge.

This is when the brain has suffered significantly beyond the hippocampus.

Now you have

problems at the front of the brain, the back of the brain, sides of the brain, and that's what we call Alzheimer's disease.

Now, technically, Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia.