Challenge your mind. Like a muscle, the brain strengthens with use. Mander suggests learning a new language, playing music, ...

The former U.S. Poet Laureate, who has a new book out this week, recommends five texts that interrogate how we narrate the ...

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, over 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2025, and that number is rising fast. For many families, the first warning sign is small: a ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining optimal cognitive function is more critical than ever. Memory and concentration issues are prevalent among people of all ages, often impacting academic ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

It’s normal to occasionally forget where you left your keys, struggle to recall a new name or wonder if you’ve already taken your daily medication. “Everyone has memory slips now and again,” says ...

A short burst of fatty foods may disrupt a surprisingly vulnerable set of brain cells in the hippocampus, researchers warn.

There are countless metaphors for memory. It’s a leaky bucket, a steel trap, a file cabinet, words written in sand. But one of the most evocative — and neuroscientifically descriptive — invokes Lego ...

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The room, decorated with an under-the-sea theme, had a balloon arch decked out with streamers ...

A new computing era arrives with the breakthrough in how computers can sort information. This vital function, at the heart of ...