Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. False memories are more than just misremembering someone's name. T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

Researchers identify "meal memory" neurons in laboratory rats that could explain why forgetting lunch leads to overeating. Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create ...

Co-authored by Anna Blanken and Darby Saxbe, Ph.D. Around two-thirds of women report undesirable changes in memory during midlife that can be both frustrating and embarrassing. Common experiences may ...

New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

In win2k, task manager gives me what it calls "MEM usage." I've always understood this to be the amount of memory used by both user and kernel processes, in both physical RAM and swapfile. I take it ...

Even after drastic weight loss, the body’s fat cells carry the ‘memory’ of obesity, research 1 shows — a finding that might help to explain why it can be hard to stay trim after a weight-loss ...

Edith Cowan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot ...

Researchers investigated the quantities of thousands of muscle proteins and found a possible new explanation for muscle memory. A study showed for the first time that muscles 'remember' training at ...

That fragrant sprig of rosemary garnishing your roast chicken might be doing a lot more than just adding flavor. While you’ve been sprinkling it on potatoes and stirring it into soups, this unassuming ...