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Insights into psychology: Memory: explicit, implicit, short-term, and long-term

Memory isn't just a single thing; there are multiple types. Explicit memory is under conscious control and involves factual information. Implicit memory is not under conscious control, and includes procedural memories (i.e. remembering how to do things) and emotional memories (including trauma memories). There is both short-term and long-term memory, and sleep is a crucial time for the consolidation of long-term meories.

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For more than 25 years one idea has dominated scientific thinking about Alzheimer’s disease: the amyloid cascade hypothesis. It holds that the disorder, which afflicts about one in 10 Americans age 65 or older, is caused by a buildup in the brain of abnormal amyloid-beta protein, which eventually destroys neurons and synapses, producing the tragic symptoms of dementia. There’s plenty of evidence for this. First, the presence of sticky clumps or “plaques” containing amyloid is a classic…

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