Eric R. Kandel





Eric R. Kandel

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Eric R. Kandel is an American neuropsychiatrist who was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.

Kandel, who had studied psychoanalysis, wanted to understand how memory works. His mentor, Harry Grundfest, said, “If you want to understand the brain you’re going to have to take a reductionist approach, one cell at a time.” So he studied the neural system of a simple animal, Aplysia, a snail with very large nerve cells.

Kandel is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Instit...more


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In Search of Memory: The Em...
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Principles of Neural Science
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Molecular Neurobiology in N...
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“It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.”
Eric R. Kandel, Principles of Neural Science



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