Your medical team should determine whether you have dementia or just normal memory loss due to aging. Fred Froese via Getty Images The number of cases of dementia in the U.S. is rising as baby boomers ...

My words, thoughts, and ideas are now submerged deep in a vat of midnight dark molasses and some days I can no longer ...

In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely-tuned process, and ...

How often do you forget where you put your phone? Walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there? Have trouble remembering the name of an old work colleague? Or struggle to find a word you’re ...

Forgetting names. Walking into a room and blanking on why you’re there. Reading the same line three times because your mind ...

Researchers have learned a lot about how memory works. Their insights form the basis of clever strategies that help us ...

The night after my high school graduation, most of my classmates hit the bars to get drunk. Rather than join them, I picked a tamer celebration, assuming that I would be less likely to get into ...