What kind of damage was done to the nerves of the brain of a 19-year-old girl, who lived only at the age of 14?

There is a 19-year-old girl named Caitlin.

Every day she thinks she is living on October 13, 2017, her memory is like being "reset" in general, forever on this day.

The reason is that on October 12, 2017, she was shot in the head during a cross-country training run. Five years ago, on October 12, 2017, to be exact, she was 14 years old when she was accidentally hit by another child during a cross-country training session and fell on her right temple. The result was a loss of real memory.

According to the video description, Caitlin is 19 years old, but her memory, only existed 5 years ago on October 12, 2017, after this all the experiential memories, for him completely without the slightest impression, every day up, feel like they are living in the 14-year-old, no growth in the slightest fragment.

Many people may say, Caitlin how good ah, can not remember also does not need to grieve, but she can not have the right to learn to grow better like ordinary children, they may only live at 14 years old, and never have to grow up. But his parents are worried, Caitlin's parents told the media, no matter what, they have to find a way to make their daughter's memory better, and normal people.

From the first half of this year, Caitlin's condition miraculously took a turn for the better. She can remember experiences up to 12 hours before now, but after that period, the memory still disappears. From the current state of affairs, Caitlin has a long way to go in her treatment, and the challenges and difficulties she may encounter in the future are immeasurable, but people all over the world are sending her good wishes for a morning recovery!

Do we have the phenomenon of memory reality?

Today I would like to discuss a few issues with you.

That is, are people who have lost functional neurological perception around us or not?

Have we all experienced the same kind of memory loss as Caitlin?

So I would like to ask you, does anyone remember their memories before the age of 3?

The answer may be surprisingly consistent, with no particularly deep impressions or completely forgotten, but why does it disappear for no reason when it is a part of each of us growing up?

Using the current common structure of biology, neurology, and psychology in the world, 3 reasons are given.

The first reason is the biological development of the human brain. Before we are three years old, our entire brain is a neural network that is not fully developed. Humans are the most complex brain neural network of any animal species. Our brain has about 100 billion neurons, and this complexity is super complex. No computer on earth can match the complexity of our brains. So such a complex brain does not develop at once. After we are born, the brain continues to develop, and the whole development process reaches a peak of complexity when we are about three years old. Therefore, before the age of three, as our brain continues to develop, the physical connections between neurons are changing. Then some memories may be lost naturally at this time.

The second aspect is that the neurons in the brain are deepening precisely because at the age of three after our brain has matured, it begins a new phase of change. At this stage, our brain starts to cut out some of these neural connections that are not needed.

(Why this happens, to give you an example, there is a word called fluency. I don't know if you've heard of it, but only a very small percentage of people can be empathic. What do you mean by empathy? For example, some people can see a certain number with a special color when they see it. For example, some people may hear a unique melody in their ears when they see a certain letter.

That is to say, the signal stimulation from one sense produces such a reception of another sense, this is a common sensory effect. The reason for this is not complicated, it is a neural connection between two brain areas. But scientists in the study of this matter, it was found that many children are commensurate. In children, the rate of empathy is much higher than in adults.

So why do these children disappear when they grow up? What happened in the middle?

One idea is that a neuron in these particular neural links may have died. Because of the death of this neuron, the synesthetic link is broken, and the sensation disappears.

Another view is that these neurons are still in place, but the connection signal between them is weakened. Because this connection is weakened, they cannot form such a signal transmission effectively. Thus, such a sense of communication disappears.

Which opinion is right?

When scientists stumbled upon a displacing agent called l s d, the use of this displacing agent produced a large number of enrichment effects in the user. So the scientists knew that the neurons had not disappeared, they had been there all along the neural links, but the connections had weakened. When the displacer enters our brains and strengthens these connections, the fluency comes back. By extension, we know that many of the neural circuits in our brain that are considered useless by the brain are slowly and gradually disconnected as we grow. When these connections are disconnected, our corresponding memories will also disappear. Because all our memories are stored in the interconnections of these neurons.

What is the third reason? It lies in the fact that our memories have to be constantly re-read for us to work. In psychology, this phenomenon is called regurgitation, which means that the reason why you remember something so fondly is not whether you experienced it, but that your brain keeps pulling it out and revisiting it over and over again over the years since then. We all know that some ruminant animals, such as cows and camels, will eat the grass they eat first, then wait until they are free to eat the grass in their stomachs, then chew it, and then swallow it into their stomachs for digestion.

Our memory is also in the use of this principle, the brain to this memory to access, then process, and then restored. So we know that our human memory is very, very unreliable because it is not a true and original factual memory, but a constantly processed impression.

What is the source of this unreliability? It stems from the fact that we constantly retrieve, revisit, and reprocess memories from long ago. This is when our brain has the opportunity to tamper with memories. Of course, the memories we are talking about are experiential memories, which are related to our experiences and situations, not intellectual memories like one plus one equals two. This kind of situational memory, then, must be constantly revisited to be able to remember for a long time.

But think about it, before you were three years old, what things are very important to you and especially necessary? It is necessary for you to constantly revisit it, this constantly revisits situational memory thing, I am afraid that only after we become adults will gradually develop a habit. This is also a very important reason why we will lose our memories before the age of three. All in all, no matter what the reason is, we do not need to feel sorry. Since we got this result in evolution, then he must be justified.

Are there people with neurological deficits around us?

What about us ordinary people, will we encounter cases of neurological deficiency or not? Will there be such a part of people around you?

Maybe this problem is unimaginable to us, but they still exist, and it is possible that you can meet them unintentionally, for example, people who have lost their pain intuition.

I remember in a TV series, there is a female protagonist, who does not feel the pain, their wrists cut into the general population may be painful to die, but he is very calm, and not the slightest fear.

In addition, that is, we often hear of Alzheimer's disease, also called Alzheimer's disease is also the phenomenon of neurological memory loss and disappearance, many affected by this disease old grandfathers, and grandmothers, may suddenly forget their way home, and even forget their family members.

The most unimaginable is that, after a large number of scientific experiments confirmed that there are too many phenomena, let's say, some people see up quite cold-blooded, in fact, very often, not his character, there is something wrong, but because he controls the empathy of the functional mechanism of the brain region, the development of a special bottom, naturally underdeveloped, so he was born to do things, it is particularly cold, cold-blooded, without the slightest The humane taste. Just kidding, in the future, when you encounter such people, it is best to stay away.

Today watched a foreign video, about the United States, in the street, do not easily, do anything to start a conflict or quarrel with others, they do not make sense when the back is not what we think of the brick, and likely to be shot!

Well said in the end, want to remind everyone that the world is a big place, only we can not think, no one can not do, so must have a modest and cautious heart to face the outside world, because, in front of human nature, the reason is worthless.

Let's say: you let an Alzheimer's grandmother go home by herself; let a person who has lost the sense of pain, tell how painful it is when others are traumatized; you desperately teach questions to a child with neurological memory forgetfulness like Caitlin; you rage at a person whose brain empathy lacks cold-bloodedness and any outcry or anger you make is not the least bit inductive to them, but rather futile to you.

Dear friends, please do not give too much to others, because you simply can not appreciate, before or now, what they have experienced or will face next!

Why? Everyone is different, you have not experienced his trip over the mountain, he has not experienced you across the sea, you do not know the pain in his body, and he does not know that you do not feel the pain. This is the naked truth!