In search of memory: The emergence of new science of mind
Eric R. Kandel
- 1st Ed.
- W.W.Norton & Company 2006
- xv, 510 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Personal memory and the biology of memory storage -- A child in Vienna -- An American education -- One cell at a time -- The nerve cell speaks -- Conversation between nerve cells -- Simple and complex neuronal systems -- Different memories, different brain regions -- Searching for an ideal system to study memory -- Neural analogs of learning -- Strengthening synaptic connections -- A center for neurobiology and behavior -- Even a simple behavior can be modified by learning -- Synapses change with experience -- The biological basis of individuality -- Molecules and short-term memory -- Long-term memory -- Memory genes -- A dialogue between genes and synapses -- A return to complex memory -- Synapses also hold our fondest memories -- The brain's picture of the external world -- Attention must be paid! -- A little red pill -- Mice, men, and mental illness -- A new way to treat mental illness -- Biology and the renaissance of psychoanalytic thought -- Consciousness -- Rediscovering Vienna via Stockholm -- Learning from memory: prospects.
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Neurologists -- United States -- Biography. Medical scientists -- United States -- Biography.