Presenter: Mitch Freedman

Memory: Two Perspectives—Traditional Judaic Thought and Modern Neuroscience

In this talk I will discuss the role of memory in Biblical and Talmudic thought (Remember the Sabbath, Yizkhor, Remember the Exodus) and then discuss what we know of how memory works in health and disease from the neuroscience perspective.  I will then circle back and link these two perspectives together. I present this topic following a forty year career as a clinical neurologist with a lifelong commitment to Judaism. 

About Mitch Freedman:

  Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Dr Freedman received his BA from Haverford College in 1968, his MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and did his neurology training at Duke in the mid 70’s.  After serving in the US Army at Ft Bragg he began his practice of neurology in 1978. He and his wife Barbara have been members of TBO since then.