The single biggest reason people don’t remember is that they don’t pay attention. Think about the last few people you ran into today. Can you recall the color of your friend’s shirt? Was your boss wearing the blue tie or the red one? Or was he we...

Training your brain is no different from physically training your body to keep it fit and healthy. If you engage a physical fitness trainer, they will have you focus on working one group of muscles one day, and a different group of muscles the next. In ...

Older adults may be able to preserve and improve their memories and ward off stroke by eating more non-fried fish, researchers reported in the latest issue of Neurology. The have found that older adults whose diets include three or more weekly helping...

Older adults may be able to preserve and improve their memories and ward off stroke by eating more non-fried fish, researchers reported in the latest issue of Neurology. The have found that older adults whose diets include three or more weekly helping...

Several large studies have found there is less risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease in intellectually actively people compared with their mentally inactive peers. And the mental activity can take many forms, such as reading, working jigsaw puzzles, ...

The cells of your brain, cells that determine your intelligence, heartbeat, muscular movements, subconscious, and consciousness, are made entirely out of fat. In recent years there has been much focus on the amount of fat we should eat and what form that...

Why is it that some people do not seem to age and have such clarity in thinking? Just as an apple turns brown or metal gets rusty from being exposed to air, our bodies are also vulnerable to various atmospheric oxidants, known as free radicals. These fre...

Being mentally alert is a state of mind and we are obviously not always alert. Our mood and general level of physiological arousal will tend to range from deep sleep through drowsiness to a normal waking state; occasionally we experience a state of high ...

The scientific study of memory began in the early 1880s when a German philosopher, Hermann Ebbinghaus, came up with the revolutionary idea hat memory could be studied experimentally. In doing so he broke away from a 2,000-year-od tradition that firmly as...

The question of the capacity of short term or immediate memory was one which preoccupied a number of philosophers during the 19th century. Sir William Hamilton, for example, observed that if we flung a handful of marbles on the ground, the maximum numbe...

Have you been forgetting things lately? Do you feel that your memory lets you down now and then? Then perhaps you need to learn new memory skills. Boosting your memory will make your life a whole lot easier and it can be fun. Where did I put the car...

Don’t you find it troublesome when you can’t remember where you parked your car? Or do you get frustrated when you can’t remember your password to your computer or ATM machine? Whether it’s forgotten names, misplaced keys, missed appointments o...

Don’t you find it embarrassing when you can’t remember the name of the waitress who served you last week? Or the name of the your neighbor who came around to introduce himself to you just yesterday? You are not alone. In almost any society, when p...

Everybody wants to be happy. But happiness can mean different things to different people. The ancient Greeks, for example, devoted much thought to the meaning of happiness and how it can best be achieved. However, as with many other issues, they looked...

Does it make sense to be more involved and have a more active social life as we age? Yes it does. Being more engaged socially appears to delay memory loss as we grow older, a new study has shown. The finding, which appears in the July issue of The...