Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

When we talk to friends and family about our common past, we sometimes discover discrepancies in memory. But that doesn’t mean memory is unreliable. These discrepancies mainly illustrate differences ...

JEROLD WINAKUR is an internist and geriatrician in San Antonio, Texas for over thirty years. In 2005, Dr. Winakur’s essay, “What Are We Going To Do With Dad,” was syndicated in newspapers across ...

At 11.45am, on Oct 21, 220 years ago, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ordered the most famous military message ever sent to be ...

One doesn't learn something until one has to. Here is what we have learned over the last three years while caring for a parent with declining memory.

Ian McEwan begins “Lessons,” his 17th published novel, with the “insomniac memory” of a piano lesson. Eleven-year-old Roland Baines sits at the keyboard in an Ipswich boarding school where his father, ...

Growing up, my mother would tell me to “stand up straight!” Doing so required concentration and repetition and took some getting used to. In time, though, I’d engrained the specific motor tasks of ...

FITCHBURG — Local skateboard enthusiasts can get free lessons from Monday through Thursday at the Ryan C. Joubert Memorial Skatepark. “This is the third year we’ve done this,” Pat Joubert said Tuesday ...