In this paper, we consider the fourth-order Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation with memory recently introduced by (Milan J. Math. 2017, 85: 215-234) that proposed the fourth-order model. We discuss the well-posedness of the solution by using Faedo-Galerkin method. On the other hand, for a class of relaxation functions satisfying g (t) ≤ −ξ(t)M (g(t)) for M to be increasing and convex function near the origin and ξ(t) to be a nonincreasing function, we establish the explicit and general energy decay result, from which we can improve the earlier related results.