How well our memory works is determined by a complex combination of things, but we can assess it at home for free ...

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Lonni Sue Johnson’s amnesia is revealing important connections between memory, personality, and consciousness.

Learning new information about the world—like details from a fantasy realm—engages brain regions distinct from those used to ...

A groundbreaking Northwestern study shows how “SuperAgers" keep the memory abilities of people decades younger, uncovering ...

In a new brain scan study, neuroscientists found that telling the same story different ways activates different memory ...

National Dairy Council reports that iodine is crucial for brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child's life, yet ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain.

New research shows that the brain’s ability to detect subtle visual changes—like spotting an anomaly on a security monitor—depends on theta-frequency brain waves (3–6 Hz) that rhythmically sweep ...

Scientists studying SuperAgers reveal how some 80-year-olds have brains that are as sharp as people 30 years younger.

Feeding mice a compound found in sea squirts appeared to reverse key signs of brain aging. The lipid, known as plasmalogen, ...