The reasons why seemingly random experiences are preserved in our memory, and how this could hold the keys to our future.

Childhood amnesia (also known as infantile amnesia) is the inability to recall the first two to three years of our lives – an absence of memory that has puzzled psychologists since the 19th century.

My earliest memories are more like nostalgic flickers. The sunlit kitchen and living room of my childhood home. The candle I burned my finger on. The plastic toy set that occupied my playtime. These ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

We spend our adult lives shaped by moments we don’t remember. But childhood amnesia isn’t about one moment of forgetting, but a widespread, neurological phenomenon affecting nearly everyone. Adults ...

New research published in Development and Psychopathology suggests that childhood neglect is associated with slower ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over time, shifting with new experiences and as cognitive and emotional ...

A recent study has reported that microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, play a central role in infantile amnesia in mice, with implications for how memories are stored, suppressed and ...

Adults may find themselves unlocking long-forgotten childhood memories simply by viewing their own face through a digital “baby filter”, new research suggests. Fifty participants were involved in a ...

One of the unfortunate legacies that my generation, gen X, has passed on to the millennials and gen Z, is the idea that therapy has no side effects. However, just like many other medical treatments, ...

New research suggests a person's feelings towards a parent can be significantly changed when they are asked to evaluate them during talking therapy, even when the question isn't suggestive. New ...

One of the unfortunate legacies that my generation, gen X, has passed on to the millennials and gen Z, is the idea that therapy has no side effects. However, just like many other medical treatments, ...