Source: “Learn to Remember: Practical Techniques and Exercises to Improve Your Memory,” by Dominic O’Brien (Chronicle Books, $14. 95) Originally Published: October 9, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT ...

Iain McGilchrist once faced the challenge of organising and retaining complex ideas. And that is when he came up with the ...

In an interview, Dr. Mahesh Gour discusses how memory works and offers practical tips for students to improve recall.

They use something called the method of loci, and a new study shows that ordinary people can learn these special memory strategies quickly and then perform almost as well as memory athletes.

Researchers say that these memory methods will be important strategies to combine with pharmaceutical treatments for neurodegenerative diseases — like Alzheimer’s — in the future.