Name: Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior
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ISBN: 9780838522455

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Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior

Eric R. Kandel, Thomas M. Jessell

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This book introduces undergraduate students to the fundamentals of biology in mental processes.

GenresNeuroscienceSciencePsychologyNonfictionTextbooksBiology

540 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

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Eric R. Kandel

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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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