Boston University researchers found that ordinary moments can gain staying power if they’re connected to significant ...

Researchers are designing studies that better represent how memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters.

A new study reveals that emotionally charged or surprising events can retroactively and proactively rescue weak memories, ...

New research reveals how emotional events help the brain remember ordinary moments that would otherwise be forgotten.

Soccer heading has long been suspected of impacting brain health, but exactly where and how it leaves a mark has been a blind ...

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane, revisiting desserts that people enjoyed during the 1950s. You might recognize a ...

A study on aging conducted in the United States reveals that structured daily habits can improve cognition and brain health.

The rescue was met with tears of joy across Australia. Officers who’d worked around the clock said it was the single most emotional moment of their careers. Even Prime Minister Scott Morrison chimed ...

A Cambridge researcher’s review suggests the brain’s ancient subcortex may sustain basic awareness, reshaping how science and ...

This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...

A JAMA Network Open study of nearly 480,000 UK adults found that choosing cycling for everyday trips was linked to a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, along with larger hippocampal ...

Findings from the largest study of its kind suggest that alcohol consumption—regardless of amount—may increase the risk of ...