A new survey of Danish school children during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 shows how the formation of autobiographical memories was related to declines in mental health. (Getty Images) A ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Hyperthymesia is a rare condition characterized by exceptional autobiographical memory that shapes someone’s past and identity. In the particular ...

Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as ...

Emotional highs and lows and questions of who we are are a natural part of adolescence. During this transformative period, young people go through profound psychological changes that affect how they ...

Depression is more than just feeling sad. It disrupts some of your cognitive processes. One such cognitive process is the retrieval of auto-biographical memories or memories from your personal life ...

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 analysis of the brain activity of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the first to reveal that traumatic memories are represented in the brain in an entirely different way than ...

There's a scientific reason for all the excitement around 1989 (Taylor's Version)—the power of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Everything Swift does makes news these days, but excitement ...

Autobiographical memory refers to the recollection of personally experienced significant events that contribute to an individual's sense of self. There is consensus in the literature on the ...