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implicit versus explicit, 28–29
learning and, 37–38, 40
limits to, 33
short-term versus long-term, 30
stress and, 82–84
tests for checking, 16–25
memory helpers, 71–72
memory loss. See also mild memory loss; severe memory loss
aging process and, 12, 23–42, 47–48
alcohol use and, 95–97
benign versus malignant, 4–5, 12
causes of, 48
depression and, 90
drug-induced, 102
education level and, 64
environment and, 36–37
forgetting names and, 12–13
genes and, 36–37
imaging in diagnosis of, 25–27
nerve cell loss and, 29
programmed cell death and, 34–35
reversible and less reversible, 48–49
sources of help for, 15–16, 237–238
symptoms of, 13–14
memory loss prevention, 6, 202. See also memory training
Memory Program, 189–210
categories of people helped by, 5–6, 50, 189–190
customizing, 50, 203–209
diet and, 51–59, 193–194
exercise and, 59–61, 194–195
main elements of, 48
major steps of, 190–198
memory training and, 62–74, 195–196
mild memory loss and, 49
prevention as a strategy for, 46–47
principles of, 45–46
starting, 43–74