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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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Average rating: 4.19 · 768 ratings · 110 reviews · 10 distinct works

	In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind 4.12 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, Thomas M. Jessell, James H. Schwartz 4.44 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior by Eric R. Kandel, Thomas M. Jessell 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Molecular Neurobiology in Neurology and Psychiatry (Research Publications 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Behavioral Bio of Aplysia: Origin & Evolution 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cellular Basis of Behavior: Human Endvr 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	A cell-biological approach to learning (Grass lecture monograph) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior: Study Guide & Practice Problems by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:

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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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