Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting (“infantile ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them-an effect called infantile amnesia.

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 ...

While memories may fade with time, the explanations people give for why they remember an event remain surprisingly stable and ...

Your medical team should determine whether you have dementia or just normal memory loss due to aging. Fred Froese via Getty Images The number of cases of dementia in the U.S. is rising as baby boomers ...

Forgetting names. Walking into a room and blanking on why you’re there. Reading the same line three times because your mind ...

Dementia, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that damage the brain and affect nearly a million people in the UK, is the UK’s leading cause of death. The symptoms span from struggling with daily ...

Footprints in the sands of time, and all that -- Must we deform the past in order to preserve it? -- What is collective memory actually good for? -- The victory of memory over history -- Forgiveness ...