MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory.
Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.
The society meets each autumn.
Our next meeting will be in Montreal on October 16-18, 2025.
Founded by Dr. Laird Cermak in 1988, the inaugural meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society was held in Boston the following year. The society has met annually ever since at a venue which rotates amongst the home institutions of its members.
Meeting programs can be found on the Past Meetings page.
Nominations for new members, including self-nominations, are solicited each spring.
Los Angeles - 2023
Philadelphia - 2022
Virtual - 2021
New York - 2019
Toronto - 2018
Chicago - 2017
Princeton - 2016
Cambridge - 2015
Austin - 2014
Toronto - 2013
Davis - 2012
Barcelona - 2011
Evanston - 2010
Durham - 2009
St. Louis - 2008
Cambridge - 2007
Toronto - 2006
Tucson - 2005
New York - 2004
Chicago - 2003
San Francisco - 2002
Boston - 2001
Toronto - 2000
Tucson - 1999
Cambridge, MA - 1998
San Francisco - 1997
Cambridge, MA - 1996
Cambridge, UK - 1995
Cambridge, MA - 1994
Boston - 1993
Boston - 1992
Boston - 1991
Boston - 1990
Boston - 1989