The Channing Tatum-starrer Blink Twice introduces a chilling concept with its memory erasing drug, which is central to the film’s suspenseful plot. This mysterious substance plays a crucial role in ...

You’ve just walked into a room and completely forgotten why. You’re mid-sentence when the word you need simply vanishes. Your friend mentions a movie you both saw last month, and you have zero ...

Erasing a memory like throwing away an old receipt? Forgetting a difficult breakup like deleting an old voicemail? It's an idea that makes you dream, or even shudder. This "science fiction fantasy" is ...

The human brain is a remarkable organ capable of incredible feats, but it is also prone to holding onto memories that can cause distress. Many people, especially those with conditions like ...

In a recent study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham took a different approach to dyskinesia and treated it like a “bad motor memory.” ...

The article “Epigenetic Priming of Memory Updating during Reconsolidation to Attenuate Remote Fear Memories” (published in Cell Magazine Volume 156, Issues 1-2, 16 January 2014, Pages 261-276) makes a ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists have found a novel method that may prevent a side effect of certain Parkinson’s therapies. Rob and Julia Campbell/Stocksy Researchers at the University of Alabama in ...

Because of his American education and the kindergarten he ran in Xingjiang that taught the Uyghur language, the linguist Tahir Hamut was incarcerated by the Chinese government for fifteen months in ...

It’s been 16 years since scientists first coaxed skin cells back into their embryonic state, a development that made it possible to sidestep the thorny ethical dilemmas around sourcing human stem ...

Common treatments for Parkinson's disease can address short-term symptoms but can also cause extensive problems for patients in the long run. Namely, treatments can cause dyskinesia, a form of ...