Every person during his life forgets a lot of useful information - events, names, phone numbers, important dates or details. This is a special property of memory.
However, the memory of some people has an abnormal ability to remember and instantly recall everything that ever happened in their lives.
This feature is not always a positive quality, and in medicine it is called hypermnesia( less commonly used terms hypertension, hypertension syndrome, whose status in modern medicine is not fully understood).
Understand in terms and concepts
The term hypernesia is medical and refers to the pathologically aggravated memory, reproduction and recognition of information, in which there is a noticeable weakening of the forgetting function.
In other words, hypertimesis is a feature that consists in the ability to memorize any information in large volume and store it in memory for a long time. This feature is one of the main pathologies of memory, along with hypnosis, paramnesia and amnesia.
In addition to the heightened memory function, this state is characterized by a state of weakness in the sense understanding, that is, a violation of the
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, sequences of facts that are reproduced in memory, accompanied by a weakening of the selective reproduction of information.
The presence of such symptoms and makes it possible to diagnose the disease.
Since Hypermemia is most often associated with a violation of the emotional sphere of human life, it is usually considered a disorder accompanying one or another mental illness.
Types of deviation
Several types of hyperdemia are described by specialists:
- diffuse( general) is a type of hypermemia characteristic of the depressive state and manic phase of depressive psychosis( MDP), the initial stages of alcoholic or narcotic intoxication, as well as with progressive paralysis or some variations of paraphrenic syndrome;
- elective( partial) - is one of the symptoms in pathologies such as paranoia and paranoid syndrome, oligophrenia, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, schizophrenia or depressive syndrome.
The difference between elective hypertimesia and diffuse is that the aggravation of memory occurs only in certain events and facts and in certain periods.
In addition to general and partial hypermnesia, there are other varieties of this disease:
- reactive( psychogenic) - the weakening of memory is selective, while memory itself improves only on psychotraumatic events;
- a disorder that develops in the case of Kanner's children's autism is a specific type of disease, when the memorization of not an entire object, but only its fragment, is intensified, which makes it difficult to reproduce the full image;
- A combination of hypermnesia and amnesia is a rare form of disorder in which memory improvement has its own frequency.
The main problem in the classification, diagnosis and treatment of hypermnesia is that neither physical nor anatomical causes of the onset of the disease remain unclear. Psychiatrists generally assume that hypermnesia is an unproductive disorder caused by an unsuccessful actualization of the experience of the past.
Symptoms and features of the clinical picture
The main symptoms of hypermnesia are the aggravation of mechanical and emotional memory. The aggravation of these two sites is characterized by the memorization of a large number of information of no particular importance.
At the same time, the productivity of thinking remains at the usual level, and the concentration is noticeably reduced.
Another symptom of the disease may be a weakening of the semantic understanding.
With good assimilation of new information, the person informs her involuntarily, often disrupting the logical sequence of memories.
Exacerbation of hypermemia characterizes:
- hallucinations;
- delirium;
- confusion, etc.
In addition, there are a number of symptoms that directly depend on the underlying disease.
Hypernemia in hypnotic dreams looks like this:
Diagnosis of
Diagnosis of hypermnesia, which is a mental disorder, occurs on the basis of the manifestation of the main symptomatology of the disease and the conduct of a series of psychological tests, as a result of which the medical specialist will establish the character of exacerbations of memory( permanent or episodic)accompanying signs.
In addition to standard psychological tests, such methods are used:
- MRI of the brain, as well as recording its bioelectric activity;
- general blood test;
- biochemical blood test.
The data obtained during the diagnosis will allow to determine the presence of the disease, its nature, features and combination with other neurological and psychiatric disorders. Based on the findings, the doctor will be able to prescribe the most optimal treatment.
Therapeutic and prophylactic measures package
Hypermemia, like any other mental illness, requires appropriate and timely treatment. Since the violation is directly related to human emotions, it often causes considerable discomfort( small details and events persist in memory), 
therefore treatment should be urgent and adequate.
Treatment of hypertension is usually performed in a hospital due to probable depression or suicidal-depressive tendencies in the patient's behavior.
Algorithm of treatment is built by the doctor in view of the disease that caused the pathology of memory. So, for example, in the case of alcoholic or narcotic intoxication of the body, detoxification is performed, and in the event that drugs are anomalously aggravated by memory, their dosage is adjusted.
The most common type of hypermnesia that develops with the MIS( manic phase of depressive psychosis) is usually treated according to the following scheme:
- Coping of the disease. This stage of treatment begins with the appointment of lithium drugs( lithium carbonate), which are active psychotropic drugs and have a tranquilizing effect. The main means of stopping the TIR is lithium oxybutyrate, which is available in the form of 400 mg ampoules. As a means of quickly reducing the state of manic excitation
, lithium salts and antipsychotics are often used. In critical condition, additional administration to the therapy of Finlepsin is possible. - Stabilizing therapy .Stabilization of the mental state is due to the appointment of antidepressants with sedative effect. In the treatment of depressive phases are prescribed drugs such as Nurepap, Nyapamid or Transamin, and of the latest drugs - Fluoxetine, Cipramil and Remer.
- Prevention of recurrence of can be performed on an outpatient basis and includes adjusted doses of the above medications. Medicamental treatment of the disease is also necessary if it was caused by depression, paranoia or schizophrenia. The patient's condition improves significantly when the symptoms of the underlying disease are controlled. A complete recovery depends on both the severity of the case and the intensity of therapy.
Removing memory pathology is a complex and time-consuming process. Therefore, it is best to prevent the disease. The rules for preventing super memory are simple:
- should abandon drugs and excessive alcohol consumption;
- is recommended to follow the strict dosage and regimen of medications prescribed by the doctor;
- is necessary to monitor your mental state, monitor it and correct it in a timely manner;The
- is also worth warning of brain damage due to traumatic brain injuries( for example, wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle or buckling in a car).
Despite the fact that in itself such a super memory does not carry a danger to human life and, often, even some benefit, it is still considered a mental abnormality that must be treated.
Memory correction and full-scale complex treatment of mental illnesses that provoked the emergence of phenomenal memory will help stop the progression of the disease for a while, or to get rid of such a problem altogether. Therefore, if it becomes noticeably an abnormal aggravation of memory, it is recommended not to postpone consultation with a specialist in order to make a diagnosis on time and begin treatment.
