Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

One doesn't learn something until one has to. Here is what we have learned over the last three years while caring for a parent with declining memory.

Growing up, my mother would tell me to “stand up straight!” Doing so required concentration and repetition and took some getting used to. In time, though, I’d engrained the specific motor tasks of ...

Some researchers suggest these are not distinct types of memory, but rather stages of memory. In this view, memory begins in sensory memory, transitions to short-term memory, and then may move to long ...

As a doctor of the “oldest old,” those patients over 85, San Antonio, Tex., geriatric physician Winakur cares for the “fastest growing demographic segment of our society.” He also had to usher his own ...