Why We Forget and How To Remember Better

Andrew E. Budson, Chief, Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology and Associate Chief of Staff for Education, VA Boston Healthcare System, Associate Director & Education Core Leader, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Lecturer in Neurology, Harvard Medical SchoolAndrew Budson majored in chemistry and philosophy at Haverford College, graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School, interned at Brigham and Women's Hospital, attended the Harvard-Longwood Neurology Residency Program, and then pursued a clinical fellowship in behavioral neurology and dementia at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a research post-doctoral fellowship in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Harvard University. He has given over 700 talks and published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals. From the American Academy of Neurology he received the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology in 2008 and the Research Award in Geriatric Neurology in 2009.Elizabeth Kensinger, PhD,Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston CollegeElizabeth Kensinger majored in psychology and biology at Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined the faculty of Boston College, where she is now a Full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. She directs a research laboratory that investigates many aspects of human memory, including how emotion, stress, and sleep affect memory, and how memory strengths shift as adults age, and she teaches courses on these topics.

This book is an essential read for all those concerned with memory loss and should be a part of all collections in the behavioral and social sciences.

• Foreword, Daniel SchacterPreface Part 1: All the ways to remember Chapter 1: Memory is not one thingChapter 2: Travel back in timeChapter 3: Keep it in mindChapter 4: Muscle memoryChapter 5: Our store of knowledgeChapter 6: What we remember together Part 2: Remembering the days of our lives Chapter 7: Do you need to try to remember?Chapter 8: Get it into your memory - and keep it thereChapter 9: Retrieve that memoryChapter 10: Associate informationChapter 11: Control what you forget and rememberChapter 12: Are you sure that's not a false memory? Part 3: When there is too little memory - or too much Chapter 13: Just normal aging - or is it Alzheimer's disease?Chapter 14: What else can go wrong with your memoryChapter 15: When you can't forgetChapter 16: Those who can remember everything Part 4: How to remember better Chapter 17: Exercise, exercise, exerciseChapter 18: Diet, alcohol, and drugsChapter 19: SleepChapter 20: Do the right thingsChapter 21: Use strategiesChapter 22: Use memory aidsChapter 23: Putting it all together Appendix: Twelve tips to remember better AcknowledgmentsReferencesAbout the AuthorsIndex