
Learn to improve your memory with mnemonic techniques, memory games, and exercises that help you learn and remember more effectively. Attach new material to familiar landmarks, sounds, and stories.
Explore retrieval cues to boost long-term memory, recall more list items, and enrich memory with associations that improve future recollection through guided practice.
Use chunking to turn random letters and numbers into meaningful units, boosting recall by forming dyads and triads. Apply patterns like squaring nine to one to create memorable sequences.
Learn to strengthen memory by linking similar sounds and ideas to new information, using multiple senses, stories, and humor to create vivid associations for names, terms, and lists.
In ninja memory techniques, find common ground by linking names to people, craft stories with chunked numbers, and use to-do lists to move information from short-term to long-term memory.
Use familiar landmarks and routes to visualize terms or information you want to recall.
Transform new linguistic terms into memorable English sound-alikes through a playful story, linking Mayan site names in the Yucatan to vivid cues like cobra, shell, and Playa del Carmen.
Link new material to familiar rhymes and key words to boost recall, then place items in familiar spaces or vehicles, like rooms or a car, for vivid memory associations.
Take a quiz to see how much you remember of the memory techniques we have covered in the previous lectures. The answers follow after the questions. Answer the questions before you check your answers. Best, Dr. J
A final set of established techniques for improving your memory for complex information.
Learn about the DSM-5-TR changes, including a new disorder and revisions to existing ones, clarify diagnostic criteria, and understand terminology updates that support evidence-based interventions.
The lecture reviews 2022 DSM-5 revisions, introducing prolonged grief disorder with 12 months or more of intrusive memories and impairment, plus unspecified mood disorder and neurocognitive considerations.
Explore stimulant induced mild neurocognitive disorder under DSM-5-TR, and contrast mild, moderate, and severe mania in mood disorders, focusing on learning, memory, decision making, and supervision needs in clinical settings.
Explore adjustment disorder, including the acute and persistent distinctions now recognized in DSM-5, and examine delirium’s impact on attention and environmental awareness to prevent misdiagnosis.
PowerPoint Slides on the Specific Changes to DSM-5 TR
Recall personal names, abstract information and complex material easily! Impress your friends and family members. Have fun making associations between unexpected experiences and using humor to recall people, places and things. Work more of your senses to retain fleeting experiences. Increase your skills on the job, at school, in meetings and at parties. Become a Ninja at learning and retaining information.