Essentials of Neural Science Value Pack

by Eric R. Kandel

This introductory textbook by the authors of Principles of Neural Science provides an outline of the basic principles of the brain and behaviour for undergraduate students. Using an integrated approach to the brain, it emphasizes the contribution of neurobiology to cognitive science. The Study Guide/Problems Book by Calabrese included will help students reinforce the material by reading the guide's overviews and objectives and then studying the corresponding chapters in the textbook. Detailed answers to questions and problems also serve as a learning tool.

Genres: Neuroscience, Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Biology

Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He 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 was from 1984 to 2022 a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was in 1975 the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Kandel's popularized account chronicling his life and research, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

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[GONZA · Rating 5 out of 5]

Il mio amore per il cervello é nato all'universitá grazie a questo fantastico libro.

[NiCR · Rating 5 out of 5]

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