Baby brain, pregnancy brain, momnesia—the fogginess that can appear during pregnancy goes by many names, but memory loss is only one of the changes that occurs while the brain prepares for an upcoming baby.
The simple eye movements involved in EMDR therapy are supposed to help you reprocess traumatic memories, but does it actually work?
Chemotherapy can make patients much more forgetful than normal, but pinning down the cause of and solution to this phenomenon is an ongoing process.
Having a perfect memory sounds like the most amazing thing ever, but there’s also a downside of having hyperthymesia.
When we type, our brain is doing most of the work without our conscious input. So you can blame your brain for al teh typsos.
Even if it’s been a while since you last rode a bike, you could probably ride it again without going through the training wheel phase. It’s because our brains do some fascinating works to store those memories.
You may have heard about a study where researchers were able to grow lumps of neural tissue that showed measurable activity – a little bit like an actual brain.
Everyone has dreams, but some people are better at remembering them than others.
A memory isn’t stored in your brain in a neat little package, but is instead spread across a pattern of cells in different regions.
The tremendous complexity of the human brain makes it difficult for psychologists to pin down exactly how and why things go wrong, so how do we define and diagnose disorders?
Synesthesia allows people to hear color or taste numbers—and maybe even remember some things better than the average person.
If you feel like you’ve been more forgetful than normal recently, you’re definitely not alone.