"The task of neural science is to explain……" — Eric Kandel
"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 individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember."
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Eric Kandel
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The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and…
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It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us…
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Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by…
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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my…
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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its…
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My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold…
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In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking…
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The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never…
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Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
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You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning.…
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