Some older people, over 80 years old, maintain mental agility and exceptional memory. How do they manage to preserve ...

Most research on memory loss in the elderly focuses on dementia, Alzheimer's disease or other brain diseases. But neuroscientist Emily Rogalski from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever been the person who remembers everyone’s birthday, obscure facts or entire movie scripts after a single watch, you ...

SuperAgers are adults over 80 who retain the memory performance of people in their 50s and 60s. Their brains show either resistance to Alzheimer’s plaques or resilience in functioning despite them.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old man. I’ve always had a knack for remembering numbers. Back around 1993 or so, I was given a phone number to call. I’ve called this number once, but I remember the ...

Understanding how superior memory works may help to improve memory in the general population and in the memory-impaired, but the specific neural mechanisms behind exceptional memory performance have ...

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...