Recalling violent incidents may hamper Memory! 

According to researchers, a stronger short-term memory is positively associated with school attainment, job performance, and with lower probability of contracting Alzheimer’s disease (memory loss) and post-traumatic stress disorder. On the other hand, a weaker cognitive control among children can lead to problems with physical health, higher mortality rates, lower personal wealth and criminal offences 30 years later.

According to a Study:

• Study says,people who experience violent incidents in their life and often recall them.
• In addition, even those that happened a decade earlier.
• Furthermore, they may at an increasing risk of having short-term memory loss and poor cognitive control.

Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, US:

• Pietro Ortoleva who is the Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, US.
• He said,our results demonstrate that exposure to violence can have effects on cognitive functions.
• Besides, the obvious negative effects on the physical and psychological well-being.
• In addition, this may lead to vicious cycles.
• Furthermore, both poverty and violence hinder the ability to develop for a person or a group.
• Also, which in turn may generate further poverty and violence.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS):

•  The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
• The team asked participants to recall an event that occurred in the last year.
• In addition, which caused anxiety or fear,explicitly hinting at violence.
• Including armed assault or witnessing murder.
• Furthermore, they were then asked to recall a sequence of geometrical figures.
• For testing short-term memory or their ability to store information after recalling such violent episodes.
• Those exposed to serious violence and recalled such an event performed poorly on this test, the researchers said.
• In addition, the participants had numerical sequences.
• In which a digit from one to four appeared one to four times.
• Also,they have to state the number of times the digits appear.
• The findings demonstrate the long-lasting effects of violence on cognition.
• Furthermore,memory recall and highlight the need for policies that provide proper therapy for those coping with violence.