Memory is found in all parts of our body. We have muscle memory. Our body alone can store memory; in our cells and our tissues. Then there is our main control panel the brain.
The brain holds all of our short term and our long term memories. It is the most important part of our memory.
The brain has two sides the left side and the right side which are both bilateral symmetrical. It also has 6 sections. The section of the brain that contains our memory is the cerebrum. It is the largest section of our brain. It is one of the most important as it is home to many major subcortical structures.The cerebrum refers to the parts of the brain containing the cerebral cortex (of the two cerebral hemispheres), as well as several subcortical structures. The most important to memory and the loss of memory is the hippocampus's.
Due to bilateral symmetry the brain has a hippocampus in each cerebral hemisphere, so every normal brain has two of them. If damage to the hippocampus occurs in only one hemisphere, leaving the structure intact in the other hemisphere, the brain can retain near-normal memory functioning. Severe damage to the hippocampi in both hemispheres results in profound difficulties in forming new memories (anterograde amnesia) and often also affects memories formed before the damage occurred.
