Have you ever wondered why you can’t remember being a baby? Your first words? What about your first steps? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Psychologists have a special term for the fact that most ...

One of the unfortunate legacies that my generation, gen X, has passed on to the millennials and gen Z, is the idea that therapy has no side effects. However, just like many other medical treatments, ...

George Washington's home in Philadelphia stood on hallowed ground where the ideals of liberty were articulated alongside the ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

The reasons why seemingly random experiences are preserved in our memory, and how this could hold the keys to our future.

A recent study in mice suggests that microglia, immune cells found in the brain, may play a role in early memory loss, or ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...

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For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...