Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Alzheimer's disease and the holidays

The holidays can be a special time, but may present challenges for those with dementia and their loved ones. Travel is fatiguing, being in a new location is disorienting, meeting new people while trying to recall names of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

What do your earliest childhood memories say about you?

We experience thousands of events across childhood, and yet as adults we recall only a handful. Some might be "firsts" (our first ice cream, our first day at school), or significant life events (the birth of a sibling, moving ...

Neuroscience

Clearest memories made between 15 and 25 – here's why

Ask people about memorable things or events that happened during their lives and their recollections tend to be from between the ages of 15 and 25. It doesn't matter if it's current affairs, sporting or public events. It ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Best memory? You're likely to decide as a teen

(Medical Xpress) -- Whether the subject is your favourite songs or the greatest footballer of all time, surveys that rely on remembering the past will be skewed towards one particular decade of the participants’ lives, ...