which in your opinion, is most important to overall mental well-being, short or

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which in your opinion, is most important to overall mental well-being, short or long term memory? Which would be the hardest to function without, in daily life?

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Let us understand what these term mean.

Short term memory: This is also called as primary memory or active memory. It is defined as the capability of the brain to hold small amount of information in the mind to be made readily available for a short time.

Long term memory: This is defined as the capability of the brain to hold multiple information and skills for a long time.

Long term memory is actually the final stage of multimemory storage and the human memory bank is situated in the hippocampus.This Long term memory also plays a very important role in mental well being.Loss of cells in Hippocampus as shown that mental health declines.

Working memory is the capacity to sequence memeories that are the foundations for the daily living skills.(Katherine M. Fortinash, Patricia A. Holoday Worredt, 2014)

Katherine M. Fortinash, Patricia A. Holoday Worredt: Psychiatric mental health nursing-5th edition, Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders,3. Cognitive symptoms,

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