Analysis: What level of forgetting is actually normal? Is it OK to mix up the names of countries, as US president Joe Biden recently did? Let's look at the evidence Forgetting in our day to day lives ...

Every time I run around in my apartment looking for my lost keys, I curse my poor memory. The fact that I forgot where I put them is due to my brain not working as it should. That is at least what it ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

We watched our parents, grandparents and even teachers do it – and now it’s our turn... Walking with purpose through a door, so sure about what we’re heading into another room to do and then, out of ...

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 ...

Forgetting names quickly is a common experience that often reveals more than just a weak memory. Psychologists suggest it ...

One of our more tiresome national cliches holds that the Irish can never forget while the English can never remember. But “which is worse,” asks David Rieff in his provocative new book, “remembering ...