If forgetting things was an Olympic sport, I’d be a gold medalist. Thankfully, these tools help me keep track.

In a fundamental sense, we are our memories. The most profound aspects of our selfhood—our identity, autobiography, emotional architecture, and social connections—are dependent on memory. If you can’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People tend to lose prospective memory as they age. Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty Images Have you ever walked into a room and then ...

How often do you forget where you put your phone? Walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there? Have trouble remembering the name of an old work colleague? Or struggle to find a word you’re ...

Celia Harris receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Longitude Prize on Dementia. Penny Van Bergen receives funding from the ARC, Marsden, Google, and the James Kirby Foundation.

Not everyone has a perfect memory, and people who remember faces but almost always forget names often actually have high-IQ traits that explain their brain process.