Our episodic memory – the ability to recall past events and experiences – is known to decline as we age. Exactly how and why ...

Memory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease may be linked to impairment in how the brain replays our recent experiences while ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

For years, scientists have known that the aging brain tends to shrink, but they have struggled to explain why some people ...

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

Johns Hopkins scientists reveal that “inactive” GluD brain proteins regulate neuronal communication and open up new ...

Memory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease may be linked to impairment in how the brain replays our recent experiences while ...

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...