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ERIC KANDEL

May 9, 2022

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Note: Eric Kandel has written or edited many important books about brain science and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000. Also, he is Kavli Professor and University Professor at Columbia University and senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The three linked books below should be read and discussed throughout the Humanist Galaxy.

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The outlines and evaluations of three of Kandel's recent influential books for the general public are: [1] There is Life after the Nobel Prize, published by Columbia University Press, in 2022 with 110 pages; and [2] Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2019 with 285 pages; and [3] Age of Insight: the Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, published by Random House in 2014 with 636 pages; and [4] In Search of Memory: the Emergence of a New Science of Mind, published by W. W. Norton in 2006 with 510 pages, which is Kandel's memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Award.

In addition, Kandel's other books include, the books, Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field that he co-authored, and the book Memory: From Mind to Molecules by Larry R. Squire and Eric R. Kandel. W.H. Freeman, 1999 (235 pages) [Scientific American Library, Book 69].

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Book #1:
THERE IS LIFE AFTER
THE NOBEL PRIZE


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Book #2:
DISORDERED MIND:
What Unusual Brains
Tell Us About Ourselves


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Book #3:
AGE OF INSIGHT:
The Quest to Understand the
Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain,
from Vienna 1900 to the Present


Book #4:
IN SEARCH OF MEMORY:
The Emergence of a
New Science of Mind


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