The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...
Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...
Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...
Your medical team should determine whether you have dementia or just normal memory loss due to aging. Fred Froese via Getty Images The number of cases of dementia in the U.S. is rising as baby boomers ...
For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...
Every time I run around in my apartment looking for my lost keys, I curse my poor memory. The fact that I forgot where I put them is due to my brain not working as it should. That is at least what it ...
Institutional memory loss explains why so many AI debates feel stuck on repeat. The same hopes, fears, and technical arguments resurface because the field has not fully absorbed its own history. Until ...
Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting they play a key role in memory ...