357 results for “memory”

Has this happened to you? You see your neighbor (perhaps after a long pandemic hiatus) and go to say hello and suddenly can’t remember her name? Or you get ready to meet a friend for a walk and can’t remember where the keys are? It’s one thing to have occasional…

There’s certainly been no shortage of research, information, and updates when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease. While we still have a ways to go before effective diagnostic tools and therapeutic options are available to patients and families, we do have reason for optimism. Back in August 2020, we reported on…

Perhaps it’s been one of your pandemic silver linings: With no place to go and not much on your social calendar, maybe you’ve finally given in to that afternoon urge to lay down and shut your eyes. If you feel this way, it’s not just you- there are biological processes…

There’s no doubt that many of us have had difficulty concentrating over these past many months. Whether because of physical ailments, emotional distress, or just downright exhaustion from the monotony of so many months of limitations, it’s been hard to focus our attention on matters both weighty and small. But…

For some of us, every birthday that passes and every memory lapse instills a fear of what may come: that is, many of us worry about an inevitable slip in our mental capacity or a slide into the world of dementia. Maybe it “runs in our family” or maybe we’ve…

Many of us would like to grab a metaphorical broom and sweep away all of our 2020 memories. And some of us are more than ready to take a literal broom to our current lives, to rid ourselves of the clutter and chaos that have built up over these past…