The challenge is recognizing when forgetfulness is a normal part of aging and when it may signal cognitive decline. By paying attention to the type of memory lapses and their frequency, you can ...

It’s normal to occasionally forget where you left your keys, struggle to recall a new name or wonder if you’ve already taken your daily medication. “Everyone has memory slips now and again,” says ...

Getting older goes hand in hand with forgetfulness — like not remembering the name of the new restaurant in town or misplacing your glasses. And while it can be frustrating, it isn’t instantly ...

That frustrating moment when you walk into a room and completely forget why you went there isn’t just a quirky brain glitch—it’s your brain literally being inflamed and struggling to form and retrieve ...

For most people, it would be hard to imagine a life in which the mind did not routinely discard once-remembered details—from temporarily memorized facts and figures to the characteristics of people ...

Memory loss is one of the most unsettling experiences a person can face. While it’s often linked to conditions such as dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, even minor lapses can feel alarming. Forgetting ...

While it might be frustrating, a little forgetfulness is a normal part of aging—just ask the National Institute on Aging. But more severe memory loss? That’s a different story. And while the thought ...

She has been wandering the halls, searching for her husband. Lost and worried. Where is he? Why did he abandon me here? This is the pain of forgetting. My mother has Alzheimer’s disease. In earlier ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile amnesia") and improves memory in mice, suggesting that microglia may ...