Why the brain fills in the gaps—even when it shouldn't Medically reviewed by Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, FAAN Our memory isn't always as reliable as we'd like to think. For example, sometimes people ...

Film producer Robert Evans famously said, “There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.” Evans had it right in some respects, as people can mistakenly create false or ...

Dear Carol: My mom burned pans when she cooked, got overdue notices on bills, and has become incontinent. Since she wasn’t safe living alone, for now, she’s living with me while we wait for a room in ...

Dear Carol: I’m my mom’s only daughter, so we are close. Mom was recently diagnosed with mixed dementia, so I moved her in with me and I’m trying to learn how to care for her. She’s always been a ...

If you have any familiarity with ChatBots and Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, you know that these technologies have a major problem, which is that they “hallucinate.” That is, they ...

Insight impairment has been listed as one of the symptoms of some mental health conditions such as psychosis. It refers to a situation where the person may not be aware that he or she is suffering ...