Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...

Scientists have long thought that babies can’t form experiential memories. Turns out, they can. Adults just can’t remember them.

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period – a ...

Long dramatized in movies and novels, amnesia refers to a profound loss of memory that’s temporary, permanent, or progressive (gets worse over time). Depending on the type and cause of amnesia ...

Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study shows that babies as ...

Dissociative amnesia causes memory loss, often due to severe stress or trauma. People may not remember important information about themselves or things that have happened to them. For example ...

In such cases, dementia gradually grows more severe and memory worsens to a much greater extent than is typical in the general population. Amnesia, or abnormal memory loss, can also result from a ...

Childhood amnesia, was Freud right? Amnesia is a term used to cover the partial or complete loss of memory. It's usually associated with either physical trauma such as a blow to the head or some ...