Eat Blueberries, Remember More?
Looking for any easy way to improve your memory? Try eating more blueberries or other "brain foods" believed to be effective at decreasing the forgetfulness that occurs as we age. Stuffing yourself...
View ArticleThe (Un)bearable Lightness of Memory
Some memories are better off forgotten. Like your ex-boyfriend's phone number or the reason why you dated your ex-boyfriend in the first place. If forgetting can be a blessing, why do we more often...
View ArticleThis Is Your Brain...On Anti-Drug Campaigns
"This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" For anyone who watched TV in the late 1980s, that phrase should bring back memories of an egg in a frying pan.
View ArticleSleeping Your Way to a Better Memory
One more thing to add to the long list of benefits of a good night's sleep: it may transform your mental record of the day's events into durable memory traces.
View ArticleAre All Memoirs Fiction?
A few years ago Oprah Winfrey famously criticized James Frey for fabricating large parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces, the story of his recovery from drug addiction. Since then, calling into...
View ArticleRemember the Alamo? Not really.
Although the name of my Psychology Today blog is Remember the Alamo (a name not chosen but approved by me), I recently realized that I didn't remember much at all about the Alamo. I knew it involved a...
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