In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, science has found a way to erase bad memories. The movie ultimately makes the point that our memories form our identities, and as painful as it is ...

The colorful packages lining supermarket shelves hide more than convenience—they contain ingredients potentially damaging your brain’s ability to form and retain memories. While food technology has ...

Erasing a memory like throwing away an old receipt? Forgetting a difficult breakup like deleting an old voicemail? It's an idea that makes you dream, or even shudder. This "science fiction fantasy" is ...

A growing body of medical evidence reveals that certain widely prescribed medication combinations may be silently stealing memories from millions of Americans who remain completely unaware of the ...

Dynamic mechanisms of engram maturation. During the allocation, engram allocation is primarily governed by enhancements in intrinsic neuronal excitability, driven primarily by increased ...

Neuroscientists have identified the physical locations where memories are stored in the brain. But would that enable us to retrieve memories from someone who has died? When you purchase through links ...