By the time I turned 21, I thought I would be finishing up my film production course at university in Southampton, going out with friends and making short films. Instead, I live with my 86-year-old grandmother who has Alzheimer’s, creating…
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Memories of past events retain remarkable fidelity even as we age
Scientists studying the complex relationship between aging and memory have found that in a controlled experiment, people can remember the details about past events with a surprising 94% accuracy, even accounting for age. These results, published in the journal Psychological…
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Aging memories may not be ‘worse,’ just ‘different’
“Memory is the first thing to go.” Everyone has heard it, and decades of research studies seem to confirm it: While it may not always be the first sign of aging, some faculties, including memory, do get worse as people…
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Cannabis use consistently leads to increase in susceptibility to false memories
A team of researchers from The Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Germany and the U.S. has found evidence showing that the use of cannabis consistently leads to an increase in susceptibility to false memories. In their paper published in Proceedings of the…
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