Forgetfulness or Early Dementia? How to Decipher your Memory Loss

Scott Small, MD, Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology, and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, answers questions about a common issue of forgetting something, what it may mean, and what symptoms to watch for as we age. Dr. Small compares our memory formation process to a computer. “If you type something into a document and don’t save it, it’s gone forever – that’s your short-term memory,” he says. “If you click save, that transfers information from the short-term memory to the long-term memory.” [read more]

Source: Yahoo! News