Dr. Scott A. Small MD

Dr. Scott A. Small MD

Scott A. Small MD is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for his work in Alzheimer’s disease and normal cognitive aging. Dr. Small is the Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University where he is the Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology. He is also appointed in Radiology and in Psychiatry, where he directs the Schizophrenia Research Center. Dr. Small has developed high-resolution functional MRI applications that can pinpoint the areas of the hippocampus most affected by aging and disease which has led to testing therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive aging, and Schizophrenia. He has authored more than 140 papers and in the inventor of 10 patents.