A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday – everyone has occasional memory blanks. While forgetting things ...

Memory ability, at least for some kinds of memory (such as working memory), can begin to gradually decline as early as one’s twenties or thirties, with downward trends extending into later life.

Memory lapses aren't always caused by Alzheimer's. Depression, infections or even vitamin deficiencies may be the reason. The ...

Dementia presents as more than just memory loss. In a recent TikTok ... The doctor said that the first test is seeing whether or not a person can stand on one leg for at least 30 seconds.

Dementia's most glaring sign may be memory loss, yet there are subtler symptoms ... study finds Dementia can be spotted in ...

There is no blood test, x-ray, nor standard physical exam ... Most of the time, the presenting symptom is memory loss that interferes with daily life. They may use diagnostic tools such as ...

To learn more, see Types of Memory, How Memory Works, and Personal Memories and Nostalgia. Memory loss is the unavoidable flipside of the human capacity to remember. Forgetting, of course ...

A study published in November 2024 in Nature found that adipose (fat) tissue cells retain a memory of obesity even after weight loss, which could contribute to the yo-yo weight loss effect ...

Before looking at the general direction of research data, it's worth remembering that two legal drugs of abuse, nicotine and alcohol have already been clinically proven to cause memory loss.