Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative ...

If you try to save a file while your laptop lags, it won’t save. Similarly, when our brains have delayed processing speeds, they "lag" and impair our ability to receive information and store a memory.

A recent article in the New York Times by neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, “Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone is Wrong,” argues that memory difficulties are quite common and do not ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough in our understanding of how memories form in the brain and how this process may be disrupted by not getting enough sleep. The findings offer exciting insights into ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient's brain, shifting from ...