A new study shows that when you finish your spouse's sentences or answer a fill-in-the-blank question, you're engaging the brain's relay station for memories, the hippocampus. Until now, scientists ...

Certain cognitive skills help improve memory naturally. Strengthening focus, logic, language, and emotional control can ...

Yet a major potential for error turns up in that space between the image and the report. Many visual details are lost relatively quickly from any given memory ...

As if wrinkled skin and stiff joints were not enough reason to dread getting older, research also indicates that our cognitive skills decline with age, with potential deficits including less efficient ...

Ms. Rowan is the author of “A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of My Mother’s Dementia.” My mother often asked me, “Am I on a ship?” “No, Mum, you’re not,” I’d assure her. “You’re high on dry ...