Mental exercises, including memory games, may help boost brain health by creating new brain cells and connections. Brain exercises are important throughout life, and perhaps even more so in older ...

As she shared in her essay about the episode, the sudden inability to recall what had happened for several hours was alarming, confusing, and raised plenty of questions. While TGA is dramatic to ...

Hospice nurse Julie McFadden has opened up about how dementia is not just memory loss — and the content creator listed six ...

A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of ...

Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

Memory loss after brain aneurysm surgeries, like coiling, is common. Some people experience memory loss for less than a day. For others, difficulties with memory can persist for months. Surgical ...

A largely overlooked space between cells in women's brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study ...

Memory loss can occur as part of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it can also be a distinct phenomenon. Not everyone with PTSD experiences memory loss, and not everyone with memory loss has ...

Ashley Wong, PharmD, is an experienced pharmacist and medical writer who translates medical and drug information into easily digestible language. Effect on memory: Benzodiazepines are known to affect ...