I meant to write this post last week, but I kept forgetting. This is no joke. I remembered and then forgot, twice, to write and publish this piece. Has this sort of thing happened to you in the past ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

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 ...

She has been wandering the halls, searching for her husband. Lost and worried. Where is he? Why did he abandon me here? This is the pain of forgetting. My mother has Alzheimer’s disease. In earlier ...

On Memory and Recollection -- Memory and Imagination -- The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses -- Personal Memory, Collective Memory -- History, Epistemology -- History: Remedy or Poison? -- The ...

A study coordinated by researchers from the UAB and Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany shows for the first time the electrophysiological signals in the human brain associated with the extinction of ...

For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...