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 School

Andrew 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 College

Elizabeth 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.

• Foreword, Daniel Schacter


• Preface


• Part 1: All the ways to remember


• Chapter 1: Memory is not one thing


• Chapter 2: Travel back in time


• Chapter 3: Keep it in mind


• Chapter 4: Muscle memory


• Chapter 5: Our store of knowledge


• Chapter 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 there


• Chapter 9: Retrieve that memory


• Chapter 10: Associate information


• Chapter 11: Control what you forget and remember


• Chapter 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 memory


• Chapter 15: When you can't forget


• Chapter 16: Those who can remember everything


• Part 4: How to remember better


• Chapter 17: Exercise, exercise, exercise


• Chapter 18: Diet, alcohol, and drugs


• Chapter 19: Sleep


• Chapter 20: Do the right things


• Chapter 21: Use strategies


• Chapter 22: Use memory aids


• Chapter 23: Putting it all together


• Appendix: Twelve tips to remember better


• Acknowledgments


• References


• About the Authors


• Index