A closer look
Your brain is spectacularly bad at planning the future, which is why that pill bottle stares mockingly at you. Prospective memory is the ability to remember to execute an intended action in the future. In medication adherence, patients rarely forget *why* they take Lipitor; they forget the execution trigger. The brain creates an intention loop, but without a concrete spatial or temporal anchor, the prefrontal cortex essentially sweeps it under the rug. It isn't dementia; it is just your brain prioritizing the immediate dopamine of a smartphone scroll over the future abstraction of clear arteries.
