All Eric Kandel Quotes
- The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions. Action
- It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality. Each
- Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing, Everything Without
- The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of… Act
- Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly… All
- There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there… Academic
- I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. Apart
- My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews.… Artistic
- My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning… Beginning
- In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt… Community
- The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It… Became
- Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections. Changes
- You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was… Alters
- I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after… Became
- I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that… Appeal
- I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not… Critical
- In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone,… Animal
- What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous… Approach
- Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit… Animal
- Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning. Called