Our memories are valuable, yet they aren't always reliable. What we remember — and what we forget — often feels random, and it can be disappointing when our memory seems to let us down. While many ...

Dr. Wendy Suzuki shares her simple tips for improving brain health.

Whenever the evening quiz shows used to come on, you’d always beat your spouse to the “buzzer.” (You did a fair amount of gloating about it too.) But in recent years, you’ve been having a harder time ...

Even if, at first glance, it might not sound particularly fun. How does learning work? Encode, store, retrieve: Take it in, find a place for it, pull it out when you need it. If you can’t retrieve ...

150 years of science shows this brain hack can radically improve your memory. Entrepreneurs and anyone else who needs to learn things fast should take note. This is a column about a helpful trick that ...

Want to improve your memory? Of course you do. Knowledge is great, but success in any pursuit is based on what you do with what you know — so it follows that the more you retain and remember, the more ...

In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doing crossword puzzles or math games such as sudoku keeps your brain stimulated. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Don’t forget!

This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help ...