Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering

Dr. Scott Small, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, dedicates his career to understanding why memory fails. He focuses on patients with pathological forgetting, contrasting it with normal forgetting we experience daily. Until recently, most believed forgetting served no purpose. However, new research suggests forgetting is beneficial and a required function for optimal cognitive and creative abilities, emotional well-being, and personal and societal health.

Forgetfulness can open our minds to better decisions, joy, relationships, and artistic flourishing. Dr. Small, from bonobo studies to visits with Jasper Johns and Daniel Kahneman, illuminates new scientific findings and reveals groundbreaking developments about Alzheimer’s disease.

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