For decades, dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, was treated as untouchable. Families watched loved ones fade, doctors could offer only reassurance and coping strategies, and research seemed to ...

Pop a memory-enhancing pill and your friends will think you are sharp for your age. They might even reduce your annoying forgetfulness. Sounds pretty good, right? Well, such pills, in crude form, are ...

Without medical oversight, supplement-takers might accidentally get too much of a certain nutrient, to the point that it ...

There are brain games, there are pills, there’s hypnosis, but the secret to improving memory may actually be much simpler. At Georgia Tech, grad student Lisa Weinberg wanted to study the effect of ...

Q: If a memory-enhancing pill becomes available, what surprising caution might the manufacturer want to heed? A: The pill had better not be too effective, says David G. Myers in "Psychology: Ninth ...

A new study shows that taking birth control pills can affect women’s memory. Shawn Nielsen, a graduate student in neurobiology and behavior at the University of California, Irvine, conducted a study ...