User talk:Johnaguilar007

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Hello, Johnaguilar007, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Pain and its negative effects on state dependent memory
I added some information on how being in a bad state of mind could actually be very detrimental to one's cognitive help. This was done to spice up the "pain" section in my article.

It is hypothesized that state dependent memory which coincides with pain and trauma could yield negative cognitive results such as dissociative amnesia, or the inability to recall personal information that would not ordinarily be forgotten. It is thought that this disorder arises when a painful moment in misinterpreted or not allowed to be detached as time goes on. It is also theorized that this level of memory failure is attributed to overwhelming stress which then prevents an adequate integration of trauma relief mechanisms as well as the encoding of normal conscious experiences. Furthermore, the inability to perfectly recall such a traumatic memory yet still being fully affected by the trauma causes individuals to undergo a sort of cognitive relapse which could cause intense memory failure leading the individual to have huge gaps in the cognitive autobiographical memory. Other negative results regarding dissociative amnesia and state dependent memory include: anxiety, depression, social dysfunction, and psychosis. [23]

Hey Johnaguilar007, I agree that your additions helped explain the "pain" section better and make it more informational to the reader. Your edit is written in plain language, but I might suggest linking the Wikipedia entries on dissociative amnesia and autobiographical memory so readers can have that reference point if needed. Great job! Ddev22 (talk) 20:38, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Substances and State Dependent Memory
The substances section on my article only talked about the effect of alcohol on memory. So I decided to add more on how substances affect memory.

In contrast, studies show the lack of effects caffeine has on state-dependent memory. With subjects either consuming no beverage or a caffeinated coffee at time of memorizing a word list, and then undergoing the same treatment at recall, there was no significant difference between either group’s ability to recall the memorized word list. [16]

The effects of marijuana have shown unclear results regarding an individual’s cognitive ability to recall information regardless of the state they were in while encoding and/ or recalling. In a study, a wide array of subjects with varying levels of THC exposure were given a dosage of this compound and asked to perform tasks relating to memory function. The final results did not produce sufficient evidence to make a strong argument regarding cannabis and state dependent memory. [17]