Many people fear the loss of their cognitive faculties as they age. However, some people, described as super-agers, maintain ...

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin ...

While a little forgetfulness is common as we get older, more significant memory loss can be a sign of a serious memory problem. “Impaired memory during aging was initially called age-associated ...

Estradiol hormone therapy was associated with higher memory scores in postmenopausal women. Transdermal estradiol was linked with better episodic memory, while oral estradiol was tied to prospective ...

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's memory loss in mice by using NAD+ to restore brain energy, defying decades of research.

Researchers have found that a natural aging-related molecule can repair key memory processes affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The compound improves communication between brain cells and restores early ...

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Penn Medicine-led research outlines criteria for limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, advancing clinical trials and treatment options for this common but underdiagnosed memory-loss ...

Experts are calling for the removal of cognitive criteria as core diagnostic features for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), one of the most common forms of younger-onset types of the ...

For decades, Alzheimer’s disease has been described as a one‑way street, a slow erosion of memory that could at best be delayed, not undone. A wave of animal studies is now challenging that assumption ...