We often experience forgetting as a frustration, or a glitch in the memory system. But new research shows it has real value.

People have an absolute terror of losing their memory and thinking they're losing themselves,” says Lesley, who works at Remo ...

Forgetting small everyday details can feel alarming. Yet doctors say many of these moments are linked to stress, sleep loss, ...

Dementia, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that damage the brain and affect nearly a million people in the UK, is the UK’s leading cause of death. The symptoms span from struggling with daily ...

That frustrating moment when you walk into a room and completely forget why you went there isn’t just a quirky brain glitch—it’s your brain literally being inflamed and struggling to form and retrieve ...

Forgetting is a necessary condition of human existence. It allows us to set aside the inconsequential, so we can recall what’s important. Good memory depends on forgetting the irrelevant. Forgetting ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are ...