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

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 ...

Don't sweat forgetting names; it's normal! Your brain prioritizes what's important, and names often lack context, making them tricky to remember. Stress and social anxiety also hog your brainpower.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You don't have to be a trivia buff to be great at remembering things. Monica Thieu, a four-time Jeopardy! contestant and winner of the game's 2012 college ...

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 ...