New research has found that, in people with PTSD, the brain processes traumatic personal memories differently from sad ones, activating a region of the brain normally associated with things like ...

If you look at your surroundings, you see various objects scattered around them. Perhaps you have just made yourself a café latte, which now sits in front of you on your sofa table. As you direct your ...

Have you ever forgotten a lunch date and stood up a good friend? This can be embarrassing and disconcerting, a potential sign that your memory just isn’t what it used to be. But, according to a new ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

Memories are constantly adapting in the brain over time, dynamically updating as people encounter new information and fresh experiences. Researchers think they've figured out the brain mechanism that ...

Researchers have discovered a neural mechanism for memory integration that stretches across both time and personal experience. Mount Sinai researchers have discovered for the first time a neural ...

I woke up in the middle of the night, as I always do in the first days after flying back from the other end of the world, and left my room with the first sights of sunlight. I walked across the campus ...