When a psychology researcher discovered her sharp-minded grandmother told the same wedding story with fresh enthusiasm to each new listener, she realized the painful truth: repetition isn't about ...

The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

One of the most important and least resolved questions in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRDs) is why brain-damaging pathology emerges in later ...

A long-running study following thousands of older adults suggests that a relatively brief period of targeted brain training may have effects that last decades.

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

Playing games to train your brain into a better memory may not be just the stuff of bad app-store advertising, according to a new study two decades in the making. Research published in the journal ...

"I just know that my brain's not right," said Carrie Richardson, 44. "And so, I hate it. I just want it to be normal." At 41, Carrie developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The condition is caused ...