Why memory lane is such a mortifying stroll

Mortifying childhood memories come easily to Candice Broom, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher from Birmingham, Ala.

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Woman, 88, walks 10,000 miles in husband's memory

An 88-year-old woman in Colorado Springs who walks laps around a nursing home in memory of her deceased husband has hit a major milestone: 10,000 miles. Martha Michel walks laps daily around the lake at Namaste Alzheimer Center. Michel started walking the lake with her husband, Lester, who was a patient at the center. After Lester Michel's death in 1998, Martha Michel kept up the walking in his memory.

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Angels head to playoffs with Adenhart in thoughts

The makeshift memorial in front of Angel Stadium's main entrance is about the size of a pitcher's mound now. Hats, stuffed animals, sparkling lights, rosary beads, inscribed baseballs and hand-lettered signs are all arranged in a neat circle around an easel that holds a painting of Nick Adenhart in mid-throw.

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Smartphone data recovery can be costly

Hope that you never have this experience: You get in a fight with your spouse or partner, they fling your smartphone 26 stories down a high-rise building's garbage chute and you pray that the data on that phone survives, even if the device itself does not.

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Flip has pocket camcorder competition

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, camera makers hope it will also lead to sales for pocket camcorders resembling the popular Flip.

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Camcorders get flashier with flash memory

Some of them are hybrids and some are GPS-enabled. They're not cars, they're digital camcorders and the recent generation of them have almost as many options as automobiles have.

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Brain scans show root of memory glitch with aging

Brain scans of older people in a noisy lab machine give biological backing to the idea that distraction hampers memory with aging, researchers reported Wednesday.

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Modest brain test benefit seen with brisk walking

Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain. The results from the small Australian study were only modest. But they back up observational studies showing potential mental benefits from physical activity.

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Circuitry discovery could lead to beefier memory

For nearly 40 years, scientists have speculated that basic electrical circuits have a natural ability to remember things even when the power is switched off. They just couldn't find it.

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Study links incontinence drugs with memory problems

Commonly used incontinence drugs may cause memory problems in some older people, a study has found. "Our message is to be careful when using these medicines," said U.S. Navy neurologist Dr. Jack Tsao, who led the study. "It may be better to use diapers and be able to think clearly than the other way around."

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Computer Memory Vulnerable to Hacking

Want to break into a computer's encrypted hard drive? Just blast the machine's memory chip with a burst of cold air.

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Remember When? Man With Big Memory Does

For as long as he can remember, Brad Williams has been able to recall the most trifling dates and details about his life.

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Young Chimp Beats College Students

Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

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Nokia to Cooperate on Flash Memory Cards

Nokia Corp. said Thursday it's teaming up with competitors — including Samsung and Sony Ericsson — on a flash memory card that works with a variety of cell phones and other gadgets, regardless of maker.

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Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM

In the fundamentally fuzzy world of quantum mechanics, it can be difficult to keep clear memories, and that could be a problem for future quantum computers.

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Down's syndrome brains aided by Ginkgo tree extract

People with Down’s syndrome may be able to improve their memory by taking a supplement of Ginkgo tree extract, according to a promising mouse study.

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Maternal diabetes linked to infant memory problems

Pregnant women who suffer from diabetes are more likely to have a child with memory problems, according to a new study.

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Brain cell regeneration sniffed out in adult humans

The newly discovered “superhighway” (red tube) connects the ventricles (shown in light purple in the middle of the brain) with the tiny olfactory bulb (bottom left) (Image: Jonathan Westin)

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Sleep well before learning something new

Sleep deprivation can severely hamper the brain’s ability to learn, a new study demonstrates.

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Protein blocking reverses 'mad cow disease' in mice

A novel treatment can rescue the brain function of mice afflicted with a form of mad cow disease, a new study suggests.

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Artificial memory aid mimics the brain's audio cues

An artificial memory aid that mimics the way the human brain replays verbal information could help people with brain damage, Alzheimer's or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers say.

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Alzheimer's drug also combats brain injuries

A drug currently used to treat Alzheimer’s disease has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for patients with traumatic brain injuries.

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Semantic memory pinpointed in the brain

The part of the brain responsible for the way we understand words, meanings and concepts has been revealed as the anterior temporal lobe – a region just in front of the ears.

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Freescale Unveils Magnetic Memory Chip

Achieving a long-sought goal of the $48 billion memory chip industry, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced the commercial availability of a chip that combines traditional memory's endurance with a hard drive's ability to keep data while powered down.

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CHICAGO - US RESEARCHERS have found a drug-free way to block fearful memories, opening up the possibility of new treatment approaches for problems such as post traumatic stress disorder, they reported on Wednesday.

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Researchers at New York University have developed a non-invasive technique to block the return of fear memories in humans.

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The man who could not remember has left scientists a gift that will provide insights for generations to come: his brain, now being dissected and digitally mapped in exquisite detail.

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Modern neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new insights into the fascinating ways our brains create and harness the power of memory, so that understanding this process is no longer a mystery. The key to memory lies in the dynamic nature of the synapses in our brains—a

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In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.

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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

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Lots of us have trouble remembering the name of the person we just met.

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Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

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SYDNEY - BAD moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

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NASA's Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia, one that comes after months of being stuck in deep Martian sand.

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I'll see you in Eternity...

Verrell Fae Camp Shadix. 1912 - 2009 - Grandmother lived through World Wars and a few assorted conflicts. She looked up to see the first airplanes fly over and rode in some of the first cars. She rode to town on a mule.

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By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- Music is proving to be great medicine, and it's helping some patients recover memory loss. There's a program that uses iPods loaded with a patient's favorite music, and the results are remarkable.

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A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year.

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Ever walk into a room and forget why you entered? Or completely space out during an important meeting at work? It's frustrating, but usually normal.

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Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language completely fades away from our memory.

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Reported earlier in the summer from the BBC. A US research on restricted diet done on these rhesus monkeys who were observed over 2 decades.

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What if you finished reading this article and remembered every detail of it for the rest of your life? That's the problem people with super-autobiographical memory face—and yes, it's often referred to as a problem, not a gift.

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A minor landslide of research from the past few years points to a dismaying fact about memory — it can be manipulated, far more often and extensively than previously thought.

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A blueberry smoothie at breakfast can stop your powers of concentration waning in the afternoon - and even help fight dementia in the long term, new research suggests.

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Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when John Lennon was murdered?

The night John Lennon was murdered was a big night for me. I was at work in a (then) small company that manufactured Health and Beauty aids in the small town of Allegan, Michigan called Perrigo.

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My Brain Observation

This topic comes at interesting time for me. This past weekend we celebrated my birthday, and as I enter another age, I am beginning to notice a few differences in myself. To speak specifically about this topic, my mental capacity seems to be overloaded.

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The law is an ass when the burden of responsibility is not the same before Lady Justice. We may have equal opportunity but we do not have equal resources.

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High blood pressure is linked to memory problems in people over 45, according to research published in the August 25, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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CHICAGO - PEOPLE as young as 45 with high blood pressure are more likely to have memory troubles, US researchers said on Tuesday in a study suggesting aggressive early treatment of the condition may pay huge dividends.

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