Teenager with hyperthymesia exhibits extraordinary mental time travel abilities

Image credit: Freepik via Freepik. Article by Eric W. Dolan. PsyPost – September 1, 2025. Research article: Neurocase.

A new case study describes a teenage girl with an extraordinary ability to recall personal memories in vivid detail and mentally revisit specific moments in her life at will. Her experiences reflect a rare condition known as hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory. The report, published in Neurocase, highlights her unusual capacity for mental time travel—not only into the past, but also into imagined futures—offering researchers new insight into how autobiographical memory may be organized and accessed in the brain. […]

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