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

The colorful packages lining supermarket shelves hide more than convenience—they contain ingredients potentially damaging your brain’s ability to form and retain memories. While food technology has ...

Leo Chenyang Lin was on a trip to New Hampshire two years ago when he stopped to watch a group of squirrels darting through the trees. That “playful moment” stuck with him. By the end of that day, he ...

In a new study from Flinders University, researchers used Caenorhabditis elegans (a microscopic roundworm with just 300 ...

A new color-changing material can remember and forget like a brain cell, creating self-erasing images that hide information ...

At the edge of death, some people wake into sudden clarity. Terminal lucidity is one of the mind’s most baffling mysteries.

Alzheimer’s disease affects more than seven million Americans, slowly erasing memory and thinking skills. For decades, doctors have relied on painful spinal taps, expensive brain scans, and imperfect ...

Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than all at once.

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow.

A new study offers hope for brain cancer patients facing memory loss from radiotherapy. By blocking a single immune receptor, ...