Hello,
I have a question: what about mnemonics and brain health?
Is there any scientific evidence or proof that mnemonics help keep the brain healthy in old age and slow the onset of neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., dementia/Alzheimer’s …)?
Thank you.
I could not find any scholarly writings. But let us reason.
Man remembers information reliably and for a long time with the help of natural properties of the brain, using mnemonics (or working with information). Since mnemonics are among us. The same alphabet, language. Text as a way of transmitting images.
What must be the causes of dementia? What conditions did people live in, what did they do? This is fundamentally important.
If a person is constantly memorizing something new (no matter how) and solving difficult intellectual problems (gets into areas where he is a complete zero, and then begins to understand), the probability is definitely lower, if we can talk about it. I don’t know the specifics.
If a person doesn’t learn much and just lives, this conditional percentage increases. But, I have no medical knowledge. In any case, you use mnemonics to make your life better and more interesting. You save time by not constantly forgetting difficult topics, cramming, and creating reliable neural connections.
After all, mnemonics are natural. There is a human brain that knows how to work with images. Mnemonics is the science/art/knowledge of how to create neural connections. => Reliable, fast and easy to remember.
Additionally: I know three older people who have learned the mnemonic skill by learning from my mate. They were 40, 54 and 60 years old. Happy to have found this and were a little disappointed that they couldn’t get to know it sooner. Such disappointment happens to many, but what a relief afterwards, heh.