ABSTRACT
Although all of us experience memory failures at some time or another, these slips of memory do not cause severe disruption to our daily lives. Most of us can still function adequately at work, engage in conversation, and remember the gist of the programme we saw on television last night while accepting as normal the forgetting of certain details. After all, nobody remembers everything. For some people, however, their memory failure is of such a proportion that the effects can be devastating.
