Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever been the person who remembers everyone’s birthday, obscure facts or entire movie scripts after a single watch, you ...

Most research on memory loss in the elderly focuses on dementia, Alzheimer's disease or other brain diseases. But neuroscientist Emily Rogalski from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of ...

Some older people, over 80 years old, maintain mental agility and exceptional memory. How do they manage to preserve ...

SuperAgers are adults over 80 who retain the memory performance of people in their 50s and 60s. Their brains show either resistance to Alzheimer’s plaques or resilience in functioning despite them.

SuperAgers defy normal aging by keeping sharp memories and healthy brains well into their 80s. Northwestern scientists discovered that these individuals either resist the buildup of harmful brain ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old man. I’ve always had a knack for remembering numbers. Back around 1993 or so, I was given a phone number to call. I’ve called this number once, but I remember the ...

A 25-year study of ‘superagers’ reveals the brain and lifestyle factors that help some older adults defy typical memory decline, offering clues for boosting cognitive resilience across the lifespan.

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...

Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as ...