Gary W. Small, M.D.
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JCP Section Editor Profile
Gary W. Small, MD, is Chair of Psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center, and Behavioral Health Physician in Chief for Hackensack Meridian Health, Edison, New Jersey. Dr Small was previously Professor of Psychiatry, the Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging, and Director of the Longevity Center at UCLA.
Dr Small was among the team that discovered the major known genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease, APOE-4, and was the first to combine such genetic risk data with neuroimaging findings to assist in the detection of the first signs of brain aging and dementia years before patients show symptoms. He is a co-inventor of the first positron emission tomography scanning method that can provide images in living people of the abnormal brain proteins in Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid plaques and tau tangles. In addition to testing medications and supplements that may benefit cognitive abilities and possibly delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms, Dr Small has studied and developed lifestyle and memory training programs for improving cognition and healthy aging, which have been made available throughout the United States and abroad in senior centers, hospitals, and other community sites.
Dr Small has authored over 500 scientific works and has received numerous awards and honors, including the Weinberg Award for Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s top 50 innovators in science and technology. He is the author of 12 popular books on brain health and aging, including The New York Times bestseller, The Memory Bible.
Dr Karp also serves as a Section Editor for JCP’s Focus on Geriatric Psychiatry section. The objective of this collection is to encourage scientific studies relating to the mental health of older adults. We encourage authors to review the scope of this section and submit papers for consideration.
