Research Catalog

Title

In search of memory : the emergence of a new science of mind / Eric R. Kandel.

Author

Kandel, Eric R.

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

xv, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Charting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel explains the revolutionary landmarks of modern biology and illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology have converged into a powerful new science of the mind. Scientists are now positioned to provide meaningful and nuanced insights into mental functioning - from perception, thought, emotion, and memory to schizophrenia, depression, and age-related memory loss. These windows into the mind also open the way to more effective healing." "Kandel's personal quest to understand memory is threaded throughout this absorbing intellectual history. Beginning with his memories of childhood experiences in Nazi-occupied Vienna, In Search of Memory chronicles Kandel's outstanding career from his initial fascination with history and psychoanalysis through his exploration of neurobiology to his groundbreaking work on the cellular and molecular process of memory, which earned him the Nobel Prize." "A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory traces how a brilliant scientist's intellectual journey intersected with one of the great scientific endeavors of the twentieth century: the search for the biological basis of memory."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Neurobiology
• Nobel Prizes
• History, 20th Century
• United States
• Memory
• Kandel, Eric R
• Medical scientists > United States > Biography
• Neurosciences > history
• Biography
• Nobel Prize
• Cellular signal transduction
• Neurologists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-484) and index.

Contents

1. Personal memory and the biology of memory storage -- 2. A childhood in Vienna -- 3. An American education -- 4. One cell at a time -- 5. The nerve cell speaks -- 6. Conversation between nerve cells -- 7. Simple and complex neuronal systems -- 8. Different memories, different brain regions -- 9. Searching for an ideal system to study memory -- 10. Neural analogs of learning -- 11. Strengthening synaptic connections -- 12. A center for neurobiology and behavior -- 13. Even a simple behavior can be modified by learning -- 14. Synapses change with experience -- 15. The biological basis of individuality -- 16. Molecules and short-term memory -- 17. Long-term memory -- 18. Memory genes -- 19. A dialogue between genes and synapses -- 20. A return to complex memory -- 21. Synapses also hold our fondest memories -- 22. The brain's picture of the external world -- 23. Attention must be paid! -- 24. A little red pill -- 25. Mice, men, and mental illness -- 26. A new way to treat mental illness -- 27. Biology and the renaissance of psychoanalytic thought -- 28. Consciousness -- 29. Rediscovering Vienna via Stockholm -- 30. Learning from memory : prospects.

ISBN

0393058638 (hardcover)

LCCN

• 2005028565
• 9780393058635

OCLC

• ocm61758023
• SCSB-5221031

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries