Memory problems affect virtually everyone at some point in their daily lives, yet people often feel embarrassed or worried when they experience these perfectly normal cognitive hiccups. The human ...

August 12, 2011 — Older patients are more likely than younger patients with a similar low left ventricular ejection fraction to have cognitive decline, report researchers. "Cognitive dysfunction due ...

This post is NOT devoted to memory problems related to normal aging, also called age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) where there is still some controversy whether it truly exists or there are ...

Many people with a family history of memory problems wonder whether they will also experience memory problems (beyond those associated with normal aging). Although there are multiple considerations in ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Everyone has moments of forgetfulness from time to time, especially as we get older. But older adults don't just have difficulty remembering new information. They also have a harder time modifying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a darkened Amsterdam conference hall this summer, a panel of industry and academic scientists took the stage to announce a plan ...

Depression may speed up brain ageing and memory problems in adultsiStock Depression may speed up brain ageing and lead to memory problems in older adults, suggests new research that offers hope of ...

Memory updating is impaired in old age, yet little is known about the mechanisms behind the process and what goes wrong with older age. A team of researchers found that blocking a repressive enzyme ...