Analyzing the Effect of Major Depression on Short-Term Memory in UK

This report examines the effects of major depression on short-term memory in young people in the UK. It begins by defining major depression and its connection to memory problems, particularly short-term memory loss. The report discusses how depression can lead to physical changes affecting memory, including sleep quality and cortisol levels, impacting cognitive functions such as object recognition and decision-making. It highlights the impact of depression on the hippocampus, a brain region crucial for memory formation, and explores strategies to mitigate these effects. These strategies include outpatient treatments, psychological therapies, physical activity, sleep hygiene, and balanced nutrition, alongside therapies like CBT. The report concludes by summarizing the significant negative impact of depression on memory and overall health, emphasizing the need for effective interventions and support for young people experiencing depression.

The effect of major
depression on short
term memory in young
people

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK........................3
Impact of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK..........................4
Strategies to reduce the impact of major depression on short term memory in young people in
UK..........................................................................................................................................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................7
AIM..................................................................................................................................................7
OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................................................7
RESEARCH QUESTION................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Depression refers to the mental health disorder which are highly effective and leads to cause
persistent feeling of sadness along with loss of interest which leads to cause the feeling of
withdrawal (Patch et. al., (2018)). This can also know as the major depression disorder which
may impact individual way to feel, behave and think and also have variety of physical and
emotional problems. This can be linked to the memory problem which are effective and have
high impact over the forgetfulness or some shot of confusion. This can also lead to focus on the
work, making decision and thinking in some specific context. Here, stress or anxiety can lead to
the poor memory. In this, there is discussion about the major depression on short term memory
within young people. There is discussion about the short-term memory loss which are one of the
impacts of creating depression within young people (Wang et. al., (2020)).
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Concept of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK
According to David (2021), depression can lead to make some physical change which are
affecting memory. This can include the sleep quality which have the response towards the
memory loss in young adult in UK. Here, study provide that one episode of depression cannot
have more impact on memory loss but increase in more than one episode can have higher chance
of getting memory loss. Depression can lead to create short term memory loss which are highly
effective and may lead to type of memory like short term memory along with procedural
memory that are effective in controlling motor skills. It has been analysed that people with
depression are not able identify the object which has been seen by them previously. This can lead
to create high negative health impact and show the short-term memory loss. This may also
include different symptoms like feeling sad, hopeless, feeling restless or irritable, loss of appetite
and drastic changes in weight, having trouble sleeping, thinking about death and many more.
This can also lead to create the situation of wrong decision which includes the memory loss and
confusion along with forgetfulness. There is various study which have the findings that
depression has negative impact on the participants which leads to compare the ability to
complete memory tasks which have the finding that depression can lead to diminish the memory.
It has also observed that memory loss can there due to depression during working as the memory

capacity deficits. There is cognitive neuropsychology which can help to understand the structure
and function of the brain and have specific psychological processes. This can have related with
the mental processes which have the ability to story and produce new memory, recognising
people and objects and help in resolving problems and their reasons. Here, cognitive
neuropsychology can lead to subfield of cognitive psychology which can help to distinguished
by feature along with disorder of attention, perception and learning memory process (Hu et. al.,
(2018)).
Impact of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK
According to Nicole (2019), depression can lead to create negative health impact where
people with depression can face trouble remembering fine details of event which they have
experienced. They also face trouble remembering any memory. There is high impact of
depression on the short-term memory which can lead to create high negative health impact which
are associated with linked to the memory loss which have depression on impact the thinking
ability and ability to recognise the event and objects which are recently seen by them. There is no
impact on the long-term procedural memory which are effective and have control over the motor
skills. It has only impact on the short-term memory that can have negative impact on the short-
term memory to recognise any object or forget what happened recently. There is various impact
on the health of young people within UK which can lead to create the impact due to depression
that are associated with dementia, long term study and many more. There is also impact on the
learning episode which are highly effective and cause the impact which are associated with
depression. It is identified that the depression can cause specific alterations within the human
brain which can further make influence over the memory. For example, if a person can
experience an episode of depression, the body generally goes into a stress response as well as can
releases a hormone usually known as cortisol. There is having large amount of cortisol within the
human brain can specifically suppress the growth of the new cells in a part of the human brain
generally known as hippocampus, causing it to shrink (Espinosa et. al., (2022)). It is very
essential for the formation of a memory. It generally aids a person to form the brain, can
organize as well as stores the memories. It can depict that the responses of a stress can usually
activated by the very depressive episodes and can influence the memory as well. in addition to
this, this kind of disruption within the cognitive functioning which can accompany the symptoms
of a depression can sometimes resemble the symptoms of dementia as well. though, depression is

not a diagnosis of dementia, when this can happen, it is frequently referred to as pseudodementia,
or having dementia of depression. Furthermore, the concept of depression can also affect the
quality sleep and ultimately affect the memory as well. In this, many of individuals who are
struggling with the depression can specifically complains of the fatigue as well as the alterations
within the sleep habits. These such disruptions in the sleep cycle can majorly affect the cognitive
functioning. The depression is generally linked with an imbalance in various neurotransmitters
which can regulate the mood as well as the sleep of a person. These such imbalance of the
neurotransmitters can be why a person who generally struggles with the depression can
experiences the insomnia such as trouble in sleeping or the hypersomnia such as a person can
over sleep (NICOLA et. al., (2021)).
Strategies to reduce the impact of major depression on short term memory in young people in
UK
There are various strategies which are used to decrease the impact of depression on the
short-term memory among young people within United Kingdom such as many of the children as
well as the young people having the depression must be treated on an outpatient or based on
communities. In this, before any of the care treatment started, the well-being care professionals
must access, together with the young people, the social networks which surrounds them. It must
involve a written formulation, determining the components which can have contributed towards
the improvement as well as maintenance of the depression as well as which may influence both
negatively and positively on the efficacy of the care treatment that is being offered. In addition to
this, when bullying is generally considered to a component within a children or the young
person’s depression, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, the primary care as well as
an educational professionals must work collaboratively to prevent the bullying as well as to
develop an effective anti-bullying strategy (Couture et. al., (2020)). While treating the depressive
impacts, the psychological therapies is generally used within the care treatment of the young
people having depression must be given by the well-being care who generally practiced to a
suitable competence level in the specific modality of the psychological therapy is being offered.
In addition to this, a child or a young person with having depression must be offered an advice
on the benefits of a daily physical activities as well as supported to consider the following
structures and can supervised the exercise programmes of a typically up to 3 sessions per week
of a modest time period for about 9 to 11 weeks. A young person having the depression illness

must be offered an effective advice about the sleep hygiene and the management of a anxiety
levels. In addition to this, the young people having depression must be offered an essential
advice about the nutrition as well as its associated benefits of a balanced diet. Furthermore, there
are some of the effective therapies that can help a person to overcome the impacts of their long-
and short-term memory such as the CBT (cognitive-behavioural therapy), Attachment-based
family therapy, Group non-directive supportive therapies and many more. Such that these such
effective therapies can teaches the people to become aware of as well as can adjust the negative
patterns that can help a person to reframe the notions during the moments of heightened panic
and anxiety as well. The specific theories can give a person the new coping skills such as
journaling, meditation, for those people who are struggling with the depression and abusing
substance as well (Zhao et. al., (2019)).

PART 2
AIM
To understand the effect of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK.
OBJECTIVE
 To analyse the concept of major depression on short term memory in young people in
UK.
 To evaluate the impact of major depression on short term memory in young people in
UK.
 To examine strategies to reduce the impact of major depression on short term memory in
young people in UK.
RESEARCH QUESTION
 What is the concept of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK?
 What is the impact of major depression on short term memory in young people in UK?
 What are the strategies to reduce the impact of major depression on short term memory in
young people in UK?
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluding that depression is highly effective and have
high response over the health. This can also lead to create negative impact on the memory that
includes the short-term memory. Depression leads to create negative impact on the memory of
patient with depression. There is high impact on getting better learning about different associated
depression which can lead to cause negative health impact that are associated and leads to cause
impact on the learning ability. People with depression can also get affected through the shortness
of memory where they are not able to recognise the object and individual which they have
already seem or observed.

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