The primary driver is clearly nutrition. Most of us don’t get all the vitamins and minerals we need from diet alone and, for ...

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 ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: An excerpt of this interview ran in WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. There’s a wave of dementia coming, ...