“People have an absolute terror of losing their memory and thinking they're losing themselves,” says Lesley, who works at ...

Every time I run around in my apartment looking for my lost keys, I curse my poor memory. The fact that I forgot where I put them is due to my brain not working as it should. That is at least what it ...

Forgetting is part of our daily lives. You may walk into a room only to forget why you went in there—or perhaps someone says hi on the street and you can't remember their name. But why do we forget ...

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 ...

The night after my high school graduation, most of my classmates hit the bars to get drunk. Rather than join them, I picked a tamer celebration, assuming that I would be less likely to get into ...

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 ...

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” The observation by novelist Milan Kundera was initially about the situation in Communist Czechoslovakia, where ...