“People have an absolute terror of losing their memory and thinking they're losing themselves,” says Lesley, who works at ...

Getting older goes hand in hand with forgetfulness — like not remembering the name of the new restaurant in town or misplacing your glasses. And while it can be frustrating, it isn’t instantly ...

Don't sweat forgetting names; it's normal! Your brain prioritizes what's important, and names often lack context, making them tricky to remember. Stress and social anxiety also hog your brainpower.

After treatment, the mice’s memories were essentially shunted back into a younger state. The researchers found that reprogrammed engrams displayed molecular behavior of more youthful cells. Using a ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People tend to lose prospective memory as they age. Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty Images Have you ever walked into a room and then ...

You meet someone new, they introduce themselves, and thirty seconds later you’ve completely forgotten their name. You feel embarrassed, maybe a bit stupid. The truth is more interesting. Forgetting ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

Memory researcher Dr. Scott Small would like to reassure you that you’re not losing your wits. Visit him in his lab at Columbia University’s Medical Center, tell him how the last time you went to a ...