Recent and pioneering animal research has revealed the brain utilizes a variety of molecular, cellular, and network-level mechanisms used to forget memories in a process referred to as “active ...

The nervous system switches between different states, and the tradeoffs between conflicting needs such as sleep versus wakefulness 1, fight–flight or rest–digest 2,3 have been studied at both the ...

Forgetting in our day to day lives may feel annoying or, as we get older, a little frightening. But it is an entirely normal part of memory—enabling us to move on or make space for new information. In ...

“I am more forgetful these days. Is this normal for old age or am I getting dementia?“ I started my last post with this question and reflected on how attention intersects with our memory. We first ...

Forgetting is a necessary condition of human existence. It allows us to set aside the inconsequential, so we can recall what’s important. Good memory depends on forgetting the irrelevant. Forgetting ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People tend to lose prospective memory as they age. Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty Images Have you ever walked into a room and then ...

That frustrating moment when you walk into a room and completely forget why you went there isn’t just a quirky brain glitch—it’s your brain literally being inflamed and struggling to form and retrieve ...

Dementia, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that damage the brain and affect nearly a million people in the UK, is the UK’s leading cause of death. The symptoms span from struggling with daily ...

“Why drag about this corpse of your memory,” Emerson offered in “Self-Reliance.” It was an invitation to let go of past beliefs and things once said aloud — indeed, former versions of ourselves — for ...

The human brain is a remarkable organ capable of incredible feats, but it is also prone to holding onto memories that can ...