Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

Simple pharmaceutical interventions could help older brains cope with memory impairment and recovery after surgery, new ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

Your nose’s superpower is thanks to a “superhighway” that leads directly into your brain. The olfactory system runs straight to the hippocampus, or your memory hub, whereas other sensory systems have ...

Memory is so much more than a storage unit in our minds. The people involved in memories influence what we recall and, as our study shows, the connections we make between memories. Our memory helps us ...

Participants in the study who received the wasabi treatment saw their episodic memory scores increase Getty Eating wasabi could boost one's short-term and long-term memory, a new study says. The study ...

Adults over age 60 who want to stave off memory loss could benefit from taking a daily multivitamin supplement, suggests a recent study from Columbia University in New York and Brigham and Women’s ...

Memory studies, which in the last few decades began to thrive within different academic disciplines, has become particularly vital at a time when seemingly stable social, cultural, and political ...

Wasabi may add more than a spicy kick to sushi rolls. New research suggests it also can help boost some cognitive functions. The traditional Japanese condiment was found to enhance short-term and long ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. After a three year hiatus, the Memory Studies Group at The New School for Social Research regrouped and reemerged in March 2020. Less than a ...

The School of Nursing is collaborating on a national study that adopts two counter-intuitive principles in its search for ways to treat memory loss among aging populations. The two surprising concepts ...