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Disorders of Memory

  • 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Andrew E. Budson, Michael D. Kopelman
  • Language: English

Disorders of Memory provides a new update on research pertaining to memory disorders, with a central focus on differing components of memory processes, as well as clinical condit… Read more

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Description

Disorders of Memory provides a new update on research pertaining to memory disorders, with a central focus on differing components of memory processes, as well as clinical conditions affecting memory. The book covers methods of assessment and clinical treatment, management, and rehabilitation of these disorders. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides an overview of our current knowledge on memory disorders that will be of benefit to both researchers and practitioners interested in neurology.

Key features

  • Highlights how memory is disrupted by disease or brain injury
  • Helps readers understand the importance of memory in human consciousness
  • Explains the components of memory and how they are affected in different diseases, the development of memory, and changes in aging

Readership

Researchers and clinicians in neuroscience, neurology and those interested in memory related disorders

Table of contents

Section I. Background memory theory

1. Memory concepts and components

2. Working memory models

3. Episodic memory

4. including Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory

5. Semantic memory and interactions with semantic

6. Procedural and other types of implicit memory

7. Development/childhood studies of memory

8. Studies of memory in normal ageing

9. Forgetting – how, when, why?

10. The neuropsychology of false memories

11. Sleep and memory

12. Emotion and memory

13. Psychopharmacology of memory

14. Consciousness and memory

Section 2. Clinical Disorders of memory

15. Disorders of working memory

16. Transient amnesias

17. The amnesic syndrome: anterograde episodic memory

18. The amnesic syndrome: retrograde amnesia

19. Theories of confabulation

20. The dementias

21. Head injury

22. Specific neurological and medical conditions

23. Also Toxic substances

24. Developmental Disorders

25. Psychological trauma and memory

26. Psychogenic (dissociative) amnesia

27. Other ‘functional’ cognitive disorder

28. Other psychiatric disorders

Section 3. Assessment and Management of memory disorders

29. Neuropsychology

30. Neuroimaging

31. Cholinesterase inhibitors, Anti-amyloid treatments, Stimulants, Thiamine and other replacement therapies

32. Neuropsychological rehabilitation

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

AB

Andrew E. Budson

Andrew E. Budson, M.D. is Chief of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, Associate Chief of Staff for Education, and Director of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, Associate Director for Research at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Medical Director of the Boston Center for Memory, located in Newton, Massachusetts. His training included graduating cum laude from Harvard Medical School, being chief resident of the Harvard-Longwood Neurology Residency Program, pursuing a fellowship in dementia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and studying memory as a post-doctoral fellow in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Harvard University. Dr. Budson has had government research funding since 1998, receiving a National Research Service Award and a Career Development Award in addition to a Research Project (R01) grant. He has given over 425 local, national, and international grand rounds and other academic talks. He has published over 100 papers, reviews, and book chapters and is a reviewer for more than 40 journals. He has co-authored or edited five books, including Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, the second edition of which has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. He was awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology in 2008 and the Research Award in Geriatric Neurology in 2009, both from the American Academy of Neurology. His current research uses the techniques of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to understand memory in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. In his memory disorders clinic at the VA Boston Healthcare System he treats patients while teaching fellows, residents, and medical students. He also sees patients in Newton at the Boston Center for Memory
Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology and Associate Chief of Staff for Education, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare SystemProfessor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Newton, MA, USA

MK

Michael D. Kopelman

Professor Michael Kopelman Ph.D, FBPsS, FRCPsych, FMedSci is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychiatry, King’s College London (IoPPN). He formerly ran a Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, for 25 years. He was President of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) 2017-18 and of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA) 2011-13. He has been co-editor/co-author of The Handbook of Memory Disorders, 2002 and Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry, 4th edition, 2009; and has served on 12 Editorial Boards, including Brain, Neuropsychologia, Cortex, Neuropsychology, the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. His research has covered many aspects of memory disorder including forgetting rates, retrograde amnesia, confabulation and psychogenic amnesia, and also other cognitive disorders including dysexecutive syndrome, calculation disorders, and semantic dementia. He was awarded a Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2013, and he gave the British Neuropsychological Society Freda Newcombe Prize Lecture in 2018.

Affiliations and expertise
King's College London