Disorders of Memory

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 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.

• Section I. Background memory theory1. Memory concepts and components2. Working memory models3. Episodic memory4. including Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory5. Semantic memory and interactions with semantic6. Procedural and other types of implicit memory7. Development/childhood studies of memory8. Studies of memory in normal ageing9. Forgetting – how, when, why?10. The neuropsychology of false memories11. Sleep and memory12. Emotion and memory13. Psychopharmacology of memory14. Consciousness and memorySection 2. Clinical Disorders of memory15. Disorders of working memory16. Transient amnesias17. The amnesic syndrome: anterograde episodic memory18. The amnesic syndrome: retrograde amnesia19. Theories of confabulation20. The dementias21. Head injury22. Specific neurological and medical conditions23. Also Toxic substances24. Developmental Disorders25. Psychological trauma and memory26. Psychogenic (dissociative) amnesia27. Other ‘functional’ cognitive disorder28. Other psychiatric disordersSection 3. Assessment and Management of memory disorders29. Neuropsychology30. Neuroimaging31. Cholinesterase inhibitors, Anti-amyloid treatments, Stimulants, Thiamine and other replacement therapies32. Neuropsychological rehabilitation