Memory storage

Memories could be a byproduct of emotions, based on the same cerebral regions where emotions originate, the Limbic System, the core of the brain. All neuronal clusters converge in the Limbic region.

You’ll understand that its anatomy is worth a whole encyclopedia, with millions of neuronal pathways requiring years of study by neuroscientists.
Mental Illness is being studied for centuries, since Man’s life is too short to cover the entire human body, let alone the brain.
Medical science as we know it today, is at a Developmental stage.

Emotions are linked to empathy and bonding.
We can’t feel emotions without Empathy.
In fact, Empathy is an Emotion in itself, with the sole difference that originates from Bonding, the Love-attachment between Parents and Children developing in the first months of life.
Lack of empathy is the result of Parental Neglect.
The logic is that Memory Retention will be disrupted without Empathy.

The altruistic approach of Memory-storage 

Are Memories and Emotions the same combination?
Did it occur to you that memories not associated to emotions are easily forgotten?
I previously talked of my hatred for mathematics, I don’t feel any emotion for numbers, I rely on calculators even for the simplest operations: I know that 10+10=20, I just find Counting rewardless, yet I understand the importance.

Psychiatry defines Empathy as Altruism.
According to this line of thought, Memory-storage would be of altruistic nature.
Healthcare workers are naturally altruistic.
Coincidentally, I can’t see any empathy in Maths teachers.