The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

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 ...

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

Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting they play a key role in memory ...

Forgetting names. Walking into a room and blanking on why you’re there. Reading the same line three times because your mind just won’t stay put. It’s .

Thu 22 May 2025 at 11:30pm Thursday 22 May 2025 at 11:30pm Thu 22 May 2025 at 11:30pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Forgetting is the ...

Dementia, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that damage the brain and affect nearly a million people in the UK, is the UK’s leading cause of death. The symptoms span from struggling with daily ...