memory disorders

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memory disorders

The seven sins of memory

how the mind forgets and remembers
2001
Explores the nature of memory's imperfections, providing a framework for understanding the causes and consequences of forgetting or memory distortions; and considers scientific breakthroughs that are providing insight into the basis of memory failures.

The memory prescription

Dr. Gary Small's 14-day plan to keep your brain and body young
2004

Before I go to sleep

a novel
2011
Christine, suffering from a rare form of amnesia where she cannot retain memories from day to day, starts seeing a new doctor who recommends she keep a journal, and her life starts getting scary when she sees she has written "Dont' trust Ben," the man who claims to be her husband.

Understanding memory

the sourcebook for memory and memory disorders
2001
A guide to understanding memory, discussing Alzheimer's disease and age-related memory loss, offering advice on how to prevent memory loss and improve memory, and including alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions and descriptions of terms and topics related to memory.

The housekeeper and the professor

2009
A once brilliant math professor suffers the effects of a head trauma that erases his short term memory every eighty minutes and is repeatedly introduced to his housekeeper anew, but past equations in the professor's mind enables him to discover surprising connections.

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