As I drove around town on Veterans Day, I was saddened to see that few American flags were flying from front porches. It seems that the memory of the reason we celebrate Veterans Day is fast fading ...

I think my partner is slipping away from me, and I do not know how to reach for her without breaking both our hearts. My wife, “Laura,” is 68. We have been together for 40 years. She has always been ...

Perhaps you can relate. In our mid-70s, Jeanetta and I each tend to be increasingly forgetful of things we once easily recalled, like long-familiar names we should know and where we placed our keys or ...

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Here's a sad fact of life for anyone older than 20: It has been downhill for your brain since then. Your brain starts shrinking, starting slowly as you hit 30 and picking up speed as you hit 50. By ...

I don’t get annoyed anymore when I can’t remember where I put the car keys. This is because I usually have more important matters on my mind. Like where I put the car. No, the old memory isn’t what it ...

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The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) refers to the tendency for the emotional intensity associated with unpleasant autobiographical events to decay more rapidly over time than that linked to pleasant events.

A new poll reveals big gaps in Americans' knowledge of Holocaust history. NPR's Michel Martin considers the implications with historian Deborah Lipstadt. A new poll commissioned by a Jewish ...