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Neurologist Scott Small’s “Forgetting. The Benefits of Not Remembering”
Scott Small’s debut book is “Forgetting. The Benefits of Not Remembering.” He's an expert on the memory losses of old age and Alzheimer’s who now introduces us to a third kind of forgetting. The normal one, the one that’s good for us and enhances our lives. "Small, director of Columbia University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, puts forgetting in a new light in his eye-opening and reassuring debut. While the standard view in science has been that forgetting is a malfunction of memory, Small makes a case that it ‘is not just normal but beneficial to our cognitive and creative abilities…
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