This "important and marvelous book" ("The New York Times") gives Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. It relates the story of how four distinct disciplines - behaviourist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology - converged into a powerful ...
Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, two of the world's leading experts address memory from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition. What is memory and where in the brain is it stored? How is memory storage accomplished? This book touches on these questions and many more, showing how the recent ...
Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind ...
Designed to complement "Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior", this study guide provides a review of the basic principles of brain and behaviour for undergraduate students. Material is reinforced by reading the guide's overviews and objectives and then studying the corresponding chapters in the textbook. After completing each chapter, the ...
A pioneer in the identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and in the explanation of the actions of psychotropic agents, Solomon Snyder has been instrumental in the establishment of modern psychopharmacology. "Science and Psychiatry" is a collection of some of his best scientific papers from the past forty years, representing ...
What is memory and where in the brain is it stored? How is memory storage accomplished? Why do we forget? Memory is written by two scientists responsible for some of the most fundamental research in the field. It combines the latest findings from both biology and psychology to give an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of memory, from molecules ...
This book is a systematic introduction to functioning of nerve cells that is designed for graduate students in neural science as well as scientists in other fields who want to learn about various aspects of neuronal functioning. With each chapter summarizing principles of important and active area of research, the volume is organized to emphasize ...
This is the most authoritative introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior available today. It presents both a comprehensive summary of the state of the science and a full discussion of historical issues in the study of the brain. Neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms, of signaling, ...
Was eigentlich ist GedAchtnis, und wo im Gehirn sind Erinnerungen lokalisiert? Wie speichern wir Erlerntes und Erlebtes? Zwei fA1/4hrende GedAchtnisforscher gehen solchen Fragen in diesem Buch nach, das Erkenntnisse aus Psychologie und Biologie, aus den kognitiven Neurowissenschaften und modernen molekularbiologischen ForschungsansAtzen ...
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