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Do all adults experience memory difficulties as they age? What is the difference between normal memory change and the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease? Is it possible to stem-or even reverse-memory decline? This timely book is a comprehensive guide for the growing number of adults who are eager to learn how aging affects memory and what can or cannot be done about it.Gilles Einstein and Mark McDaniel, widely respected for their research and lectures on memory, explain how memory works and how memory processes change with age. Based on up-to-date and rigorous scientific evidence, they also offer* techniques and strategies for improving memory in everyday life* alternatives to hard-to-use mnemonic techniques* physical and mental exercises that can enhance memory* a review of drugs and nutritional supplements touted to enhance memory* a complete discussion of Alzheimer's disease, its symptoms and risk factors, along with guidance for caretakers* and much more.

Brain --- Memory disorders in old age --- Memory --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Age-associated memory impairment --- Memory disorders in the aged --- Cognition disorders in old age --- Cerebrum --- Mind --- Central nervous system --- Head --- Aging --- Prevention

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This volume reflects the pressure to develop useful models and methodologies to study executive behaviour - the ability to update information in working memory in order to control selective attention to formulate plans of action and to monitor their efficient execution. Many models are based on the concept of a single ""central executive"" that manges these functions; others propose a number of independent ""working memory systems"" that each serve one task or activity but not others.; This book is a collection of essays by active researchers who discuss their own work on the definition of ""e

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