Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

Many struggling readers are held back by challenges with their working memory. When students cannot retain information long enough to make sense of what they’re reading, comprehension suffers, ...

Memory problems affect virtually everyone at some point in their daily lives, yet people often feel embarrassed or worried when they experience these perfectly normal cognitive hiccups. The human ...

Many people with ADHD wonder if they have a "bad" memory. I think “bad” is an unhelpful way to describe memory and “uneven” would be more accurate. Adults, teens and kids with ADHD often struggle with ...

Memory Cafes include a variety of engaging activities for people with memory loss as well as their caregivers and friends. Heidi Lage — a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice ...

When people think about dementia, their minds usually go straight to memory loss — forgetting names, losing their keys, ...

Memory problems have long been considered the primary hallmark of dementia, but a team of researchers is now challenging this view. They argue that changes in sensory perception—from vision to balance ...

You walk into a room and forget why you came there. You struggle to remember the name of someone you’ve known for years. You lose track of conversations mid-sentence or can’t recall what you did ...

A minority of people have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, so they can remember events in their lives in cinematic detail. While researchers don’t yet know how rare ability ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...