Barretto, Rhea Mae C.

Assessment 2
BS PSY 2-7NS Physiology & Biological Psychology

The role for Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis at Multiple Time Scales: A Study on
Recent and Remote Memory in Humans 

This journal was able to exhibit how neuroplasticity is really evident and is relevant in
the remote memory of human being. Our brain has the ability to adapt to the changes
that is resulted by new acquired experiences or learnings which is referred to as
neuroplasticity or brain plasticity. Human brain is like a mini factory which is constantly
working to adapt and adjust throughout the individual’s lifetime. Neuroplasticity creates
new neural pathways that reorganizes and rewire synaptic connections in our brain as
we learn new things or when something unfortunate happen that damage the brain, it
will then compensate to the lost function of that region so that it still can perform. Our
younger brain is much more active and is dominant than the older brain, it is because as
we grow the brain is trying to adapt and mature and neuroplasticity is believed that will
stop when you reach the age of 25. As we learn new things or information, the brain
concluded it as a new memory that should retain to someone’s memory may it be in
short term or long term memory. New learned information or things are stored in our
short term memory which we can temporarily recall and after period of time, it can be
encoded or can be shifted in our long term memory. Hippocampus is the region in our
brain that is responsible for both learning and memory of a person and it is involved in
storing long-term memories or the episodic memories and is partly responsible in
making those memories resistant in forgetting. But as we age, we tend to gradually lose
neurons and this may result to impairment in someone’s why of brain functioning and
may have difficulty in retrieving memories like those people who are suffering from
dementia. Neuroplasticity may affect the human memory because it again reorganizes
new set of neural pathways when exposed to new experiences, new things, or new
information. When someone is repeatedly trying to access a memory in their neural
network they tend to create electrochemical pathways. You see, when people do not
access the same memory or same activity the brain will gradually take down that
memory or activity and it will soon die down that is why we don’t recall or remember
some of our memories. When people continuously repeat the activity or the memory
from their long term memory it helps build a more strong and thicker connection in our
brain and the memory will then be retained.