Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

One doesn't learn something until one has to. Here is what we have learned over the last three years while caring for a parent with declining memory.

Ian McEwan begins “Lessons,” his 17th published novel, with the “insomniac memory” of a piano lesson. Eleven-year-old Roland Baines sits at the keyboard in an Ipswich boarding school where his father, ...

It doesn’t get more sobering than our painful memory of the horrors of Oct. 7. The heart-wrenching images are seared in our minds. Marauding invaders. The slaughter of innocents. Brutality. Savagery.

As a doctor of the “oldest old,” those patients over 85, San Antonio, Tex., geriatric physician Winakur cares for the “fastest growing demographic segment of our society.” He also had to usher his own ...

Thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors live in the South Florida area, although their numbers dwindle significantly with each passing year. Victims of one of the darkest periods in human history, ...