There are countless metaphors for memory. It’s a leaky bucket, a steel trap, a file cabinet, words written in sand. But one of the most evocative — and neuroscientifically descriptive — invokes Lego ...

No matter what your age is, you may have experienced an occasional memory challenge, like misplacing your car keys or walking into a room and forgetting why you're there. These are normal incidents of ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

A memory book is back in the hands of a surviving family member, who drove all the way from Maryland to Winston-Salem to retrieve the precious book that belonged ...

Charan Ranganath is a professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the memory and plasticity program at the University of California, Davis. He has been studying the neuroscience of memory ...

Katharine Holabird's Angelina Ballerina helps children hold onto their favorite moments in My Memory Book, with plentiful illustrations of the dancing mouse by Helen Craig. Framed pages allow ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — A trip to a local thrift store led a Winston-Salem woman to a discovery she never expected: a family memory book filled with a stranger’s photos and handwritten messages. ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Your browser does not support the video element. On a recent late afternoon, I was having trouble remembering. My ...

When it comes to the brain, a healthy diet, good sleep hygiene and frequent exercise are vital, but so is one other thing, says Dr. Richard Restak, clinical professor of neurology at The George ...

Did you realize that, just as your body needs a good workout, your brain does too? Many brain activities promise to sharpen your thinking and even make you smarter. While some might not hold up under ...