Beginning of Essay
? ‘It seems, then, that we owe to memory almost all that we either have or are; that our ideas and conceptions are its work, and that our everyday perception, thought, and movement is derived from this source. Memory collects the countless phenomena of our exist ....

Middle of Essay
.... memory (such as Alzheimer’s disease) do have similarities with the effects of normal ageing - Nebes (1992) stated that there is ‘relatively little evidence for qualitative differences between Alzheimer’s disease and normal ageing’. Examples of such similarities between the effects of normal ageing and other experimental and clinical conditions shall be discussed at relevant points during the essay. The physiological effects of ageing on memory are still unclear. However, it is known that there is a correlation between memory decline and the degeneration of neurones. One example of such a link is the degeneration of the neural pathway betwe ....