Typically, the earliest adult memories of childhood start at about age 4. But scientists have wondered why not sooner. Is it because babies’ brains are too immature to form memories? Or do ...

The inability to recall memories from early childhood is known as childhood amnesia. One theory suggested that the cause is the underdevelopment of the hippocampus, a key brain area responsible ...

This is because of a phenomenon called infantile amnesia – the rapid forgetting of memories formed during early childhood. Infantile amnesia is a universal human experience that remains poorly ...

Just visualise the scenario where you spend years of your life building up a defence team in your body that remembers every ...

An insidious but lesser-known consequence of even a mild measles infection is that it kills the very cells that remember ...

When women pause for motherhood, it’s not their brilliance and potential that fades, it’s the world’s memory of it.

This phenomenon is known as immune amnesia, Garcia Carreno, McLellan and Piedra said. Studies have found that measles can ...

Unvaccinated children are becoming unvaccinated adults, who are at risk of dangerous complications.

This "immune amnesia," physicians say, leaves patients vulnerable to reoccurrence of diseases their immune cells were previously able to resist. If a child gets sick with measles, "for the next ...

The author overcame his dependence on pills and alcohol. Now he wants to beat back misconceptions about the science of ...