Kelly O’Brien leads the Business Collaborative for Brain Health at UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, advancing brain health in workplaces and policy. Take a systems-level approach to wellness. The good news is ...

Research increasingly suggests that smell could play a role in memory retention—and you may be able to leverage the sense to ...

Lapses in memory are a normal part of ageing but can also be signs of dementia. Here’s how to distinguish between typical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nootropics are touted as “smart drugs” meant to improve cognitive performance. But there’s a lot we still don’t know about them.

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...

Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

A slow morning often starts long before lunch. Breakfast can either steady the mind and body or set up a hard crash by ...