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The Complete Guide to Memory review: How we remember and how we forget

How does our memory really work? Richard Restak's guide delves deep to explain the complexities, offering new clues to strengthening our minds and maybe even warding off the damage caused by Alzheimer's

By Alex Wilkins

8 February 2023

Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: a neurologist?s tips for fighting memory loss and Alzheimer?s. Dr Richard Restak at his home in Washington, D.C. on August 3, 2022. ? Greg Kahn / Guardian / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: info@eyevine.com http://www.eyevine.com

Richard Restak (left) uses case study and anecdote to explain memory

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The Complete Guide to Memory

Richard Restak (Penguin Life)

IT IS all too easy to forget how much we rely on our memory and how quickly things can go south when it falters. Although the march towards forgetfulness is often presented as a foregone conclusion, it doesn’t have to be that way, writes Richard Restak in The Complete Guide to Memory, a short but comprehensive compendium of everything we know about memory and how we might improve it.

So-called brain…

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