Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

We’re collectively eroding our minds with technology, he warns. But these simple tips can help you fight back.

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...

In the Balkans, tradition is often deemed to be fixed and patriarchal. Yet the region’s history, folklore and popular memory ...

A former Johns Hopkins psychiatry professor has branded Donald Trump the 'sickest patient' he has ever seen, alleging signs of accelerating frontotemporal dementia despite the President's clean White ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (DDurrich/Canva) Scientists have developed a nasal spray that reduces brain inflammation and restores lost memory function in mice ...

A team of scientists from the U.S. has discovered that acetate, a simple molecule involved in how our bodies create energy, can significantly increase long-term memory in female mice. The researchers ...

Scientists have created a blood test that can estimate when Alzheimer’s symptoms are likely to begin. By measuring a protein called p-tau217, the model predicts symptom onset within roughly three to ...

An Oak Creek man is accused of stealing a cellphone and a credit card from an 84-year-old woman in memory care in Franklin. A daughter of the victim had reported her mother's phone and her engagement ...

You know how a random whiff of something can instantly drop you back into a specific time and place from your past, like your grandma’s kitchen or high-school hallway? That isn’t just a neat trick of ...