Old home movies are being used to help trigger the forgotten past of people with dementia and other memory loss.

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Old films to aid memory recovery

Friends and former pupils of a retired schoolteacher found stabbed to death plan a vigil in her memory.

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Vigil plan for murdered teacher

Scientists have used brain scans to shed more light on how the brain deals with the memory of unpleasant or traumatic events during sleep.

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Dreaming ‘eases painful memories’

For brain scientists, a gaffe by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was a fascinating example of a common experience: the brain freeze.

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Well Blog: Researchers Tune In to a High-Profile Lapse

Herman Cain searched his memory for details about what might have caused a woman in the 1990s to accuse him of sexual harassment. No, he couldn’t remember her, not much at all. Then again, there was one time, the Republican presidential candidate told me, when he stood next to the woman and noted that she was about the same height as his wife. He showed me how close he was standing to her by asking a female staffer to stand next to him. It was close. Not touching, but close. Read full article > >

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What Herman Cain recalls

Relative and friends of murdered Kilmarnock school boy Jon Wilson take part in a march in his memory.

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March held for murdered teenager

Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers Wednesday about whether his company’s search engine stifles competition as he insisted it has not violated its famous “don’t be evil” motto. Schmidt, who had never testified on Capitol Hill, began his highly anticipated testimony by invoking the memory of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who walked the same gantlet before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel during the 1990s. Read full article > >

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For a reporter injured in a cycling accident, the worst consequence was a 20-minute hole in his memory.

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Filling In the Details Wiped Away by a Bike Crash

For a reporter injured in a cycling accident, the worst consequence was a 20-minute hole in his memory.

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Filling In the Details Wiped Away by a Bike Crash

British author Aminatta Forna’s novel The Memory of Love is named best book at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ceremony in Sydney.

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Forna wins Commonwealth book gong

What thinking in 140 characters does to our brains.

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First: The Twitter Trap

After he lost his memory, Mark Hogancamp created a universe of his own: a tiny World War II-era town called Marwencol, the subject of a documentary.

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At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal

Libya’s rebellion draws strength from the memory of colonialism. It’s being led by the urban elite.

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Opinion »: Op-Ed: Why Qaddafi Has Already Lost

Hershey High School will look to extend its recent dominance at the USA Memory Championship on Saturday in Manhattan.

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Half the Game Is Mental; So Is the Other Half

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s fond memories of growing up in Yazoo City continue to put him in awkward situations. First he praised the anti-integration White Citizens Council in the Weekly Standard; now it seems his memory of Martin Luther King…

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Barbour’s Foggy MLK Memory