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Principles of Neural Science
The most authoritative introduction to the brain, its structure, funct ion, development, and control of behavior available today. Presents bo th a comprehensive summary of the state of the science and a full disc ussion of historical issues in the study of the brain. Neuroanatomy, c ell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms of signaling, and development are thoroughly descr...more
Hardcover, 1414 pages
Published
January 5th 2000
by McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
(first published July 1985)
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The Kandell, Schwartz and Jessel text on neuroscience is by far the most complete account of scientific theory on the brain and its mechanical and biochemical structures. Unfortunately, the fourth edition was published in 2000, and a great many advances have been made since then. Many of the structures and theories proposed are now out of date, and several things that are listed as unknown or untested have been better resolved. The upcoming publication of a fifth edition is very highly anticipat...more
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This book is a page turner, really. It has everything you want to know about the brain except anatomy and electrophysiology. Those two are covered well be The Human Brain Coloring Book (really, it is my desk reference!)and by Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes, by Hille (NOT a page-turner by any means, but it has everything you'd want to know on the subject).
Actually read it a month ago for a uni exam.
What to say about it?
Very well written but simply suicidal to read and soul-shattering to STUDY.
But since I've passed my exam I don't see why I don't have to include it in the books I've read in 2013.
'Cause I damn did.
What to say about it?
Very well written but simply suicidal to read and soul-shattering to STUDY.
But since I've passed my exam I don't see why I don't have to include it in the books I've read in 2013.
'Cause I damn did.
I'm reviewing this simply because it was my bible for three years of my life. I ate, slept and drank with a library copy of Kandel by my side (that I just kept renewing online every month for the whole three years).
I remember reading for fun.. thoooose were the days.
I stole my copy. Well within my rights under the educational instructional purposes defined as fair use by congress. I stole it and it's mine.
I stole my copy. Well within my rights under the educational instructional purposes defined as fair use by congress. I stole it and it's mine.
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This massive door-stop was my neuroscience text. It is awesome. My book was old, but it still had a LOT of info. Amazingly, my nursing school fundamentals book is THICKER.
New edition, same basic good (but hard to find unless you've read it a ton) stuff.
another popular neuroscience intro textbook (referenced by Michael Arbib in TMB2)
Can't wait to read it after seeing Kandel's lectures on memory on youtube!
This is the book that resulted in the career I am pursuing now.
Required for a college class.
Very educative, amazing..
Jul 25, 2009
Binu
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THE classic textbook.
This is the first graduate biology textbook I picked up and I was blown away. Beautiful illustrations, clear writing, and... well, neural science is just pretty darn cool. There's a new edition coming out and I'll be eager to see what has been discovered since the previous edition.
Ok, it's a textbook. And a dry, difficult text at that, despite Kandel's attempts at humor. But how can I not give credit to a book that a. changed my life and b. took me more than a FULL semester to read. It is THE bible of Neuroscience.
This book doesn't skim on the technical detail or rigor, but is still accessible to the highly motivated layperson. The chapters actually written by Kandel are probably the best.
Really fine textbook. You'll never finish it all, but if you want to get up to speed on perception, etc. it's a great way to do it.
Really great reference. Lots of detail. Is getting out-of-date b/c of the rapidity with which this field moves.
The bible of Neuroscience.
Mar 26, 2007
J. H. Liu
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
weightlifters.
everything about life.
i will never stop learning from this book.
Jun 19, 2013
A.R. Moler
marked it as to-read
Jun 15, 2013
Ashish
marked it as to-read
Jun 13, 2013
Mollybaker
marked it as to-read
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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 brai...more
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Kandel, who had studied psychoanalysis, wanted to understand how memory works. His mentor, Harry Grundfest, said, “If you want to understand the brai...more
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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.”
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