Scott A. Small is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he is the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center. He has run an NIH-funded laboratory for nearly twenty years and has published over 130 studies on memory function and how it malfunctions. He's also a physician specializing in aging and dementia. His work has been covered by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time. He was raised in Israel and lives in New York City.