Principles of Neural Science

by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell

A Doody's Core Title for 2011! 5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!
"This is a simply wonderful book that makes accessible in one place all the details of how the neuron and brain work. The writing is clear. The drawings are elegant and educational. The book is a feast for both the eye and mind. The richness, the beauty, and the complexity of neuroscience is all captured in this superb book."-- Doody's Review Service Now in resplendent color, the new edition continues to define the latest in the scientific understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and human behavior. Each chapter is thoroughly revised and includes the impact of molecular biology in the mechanisms underlying developmental processes and in the pathogenesis of disease. Important features to this edition include a new chapter - Genes and Behavior; a complete updating of development of the nervous system; the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric disease; cognitive neuroscience of perception, planning, action, motivation and memory; ion channel mechanisms; and much more.

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

1414 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1981

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.

Reviews

[GONZA]

Studiato tantissimi anni fa per l'esame di Fondamenti anatomo fisiologici dell'attivitá psichica. Uno dei piú bei libri di sempre.

[BVC]

Più completo del Bear.
Comunque, in entrambi i casi, non limitarsi a studiarli ma affiancare altro studio autonomo con letteratura e altri manuali.
Presenti informazioni errate/inesatte, come il presunto rapporto Neuroni/Glia 1:50.