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Originally Posted by Scott McD
How long term memory can be fine and yet short term non existent is difficult to understand...
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Dementia and alzheimers attacks the short term memory portions of the brain first. The way the brain works is that if a memory remains in your short term memory portion for some period of time, it is then moved to the long term memory portion. Eventually the short term memory is completely unable to function and it starts eating at the long term memory. The last thing to go are the very primitive parts of the brain that control natural instincts.