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 ...

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

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

Cedars-Sinai researchers created “young” immune cells from human stem cells that reversed cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s ...

A small transparent worm, barely the size of a grain of salt, is helping scientists unlock one of the brain’s biggest ...

Erasing a memory like throwing away an old receipt? Forgetting a difficult breakup like deleting an old voicemail? It's an idea that makes you dream, or even shudder. This "science fiction fantasy" is ...

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 ...

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.

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 model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain cell — might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers reported in the journal PNAS in May. The study looks ...