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I was in the supermarket recently when a woman came running toward me. “Jancee!” she said. “How are you?”

I was in the supermarket recently when a woman came running toward me. “Jancee!” she said. “How are you?”

Some memory lapses are a normal part of brain function, experts say.

When East Germany collapsed, millions of the Stasi’s victims choose to remain in ignorance about their oppressors. Is it sometimes better to forget the past than to investigate it?<br>

A guest op-ed appeared in The New York Times this week. Its headline read, “We will forget most of the pandemic. And that’s a good thing.” This odd submission was penned by Scott Small, an executive at, of all things, an Alzheimer’s foundation. Small has also written a book called, Forgetting: The Benefits of Not

Dr. Scott Small's new book suggests forgetting is a key to human cognition and happiness.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center Who among us hasn’t worried when we’ve yet again misplaced our phone or reached back into the recesses of our mind for a familiar name and come up blank? Our culture bombards us with directives to boost our cognitive skills and train our brains to retain information, and mental slip ups can be alarming. We worry: Is this normal memory loss or the onset of dementia? Scott A. Small, MD, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia...