People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience traumatic memories differently than other types of negative memories. A recent Nature Neuroscience study investigates the neural patterns ...

A new study shows that when individuals with PTSD recall traumatic events, each person displays different brain activity, which is markedly different from when they recall a sad or neutral memory.

It is natural not to remember childhood memories. However, certain factors can affect how much of their childhood a person remembers. People usually cannot remember events that occurred before they ...

When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers investigated how the lack of mental imagery affects long-term memory. They were able to show that changes in two important ...

I've never really liked the dentist as an adult, but never thought much about it. But recently, I had a dentist appointment scheduled, and, as the day went on, something kept nagging at me. After a ...

Past psychology studies suggest that people tend to remember emotional events, such as their wedding, the birth of a child or ...

Truth isn’t always fact. Memory isn’t always reliable. And the stories we tell—about ourselves, our past, and our world—are often fragile constructions shaped by trauma, desire, and perspective. Some ...