In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, science has found a way to erase bad memories. The movie ultimately makes the point that our memories form our identities, and as painful as it is ...

Erasing "bad" or painful memories through sleep cues could transform how we treat a wide range of mental health conditions.

For decades, brain aging sounded like a one-way street: neurons slow down, memory slips, and the best anyone could hope for ...

The colorful packages lining supermarket shelves hide more than convenience—they contain ingredients potentially damaging your brain’s ability to form and retain memories. While food technology has ...

The article “Epigenetic Priming of Memory Updating during Reconsolidation to Attenuate Remote Fear Memories” (published in Cell Magazine Volume 156, Issues 1-2, 16 January 2014, Pages 261-276) makes a ...

Our memories make us who we are—just ask Barbra Streisand. But despite the lyrics in many popular songs, memories aren’t ...

The human brain filters through a flood of experiences to create specific memories. Why do some of the experiences in this deluge of sensory information become “memorable,” while most are discarded by ...

Imagine journeying through time, only to return with no recollection of your past. A recent report suggests that this could be a reality if time travel were possible. This concept of memory loss is ...

"Scientists find secret of reversing bad memories," published in the Telegraph from an article in Nature, extends a dangerous trend in neuroscience—It makes false and non-credible promises from ...

A new model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain cell — might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers reported in the journal PNAS in May. The study looks ...

Scroll on to find out how quickly a day’s diet can hit the recommended fat limits which could be expanding your waistline, driving up cholesterol - and worsening your memory FORGOTTEN the name of ...