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American
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Scientist
Born:
November 7
, 1929
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
Eric Kandel
Life
People
Together
Internet
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
Eric Kandel
Experience
Mind
World
Biology
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
Eric Kandel
Nature
Together
Mind
Brain
I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.
Eric Kandel
Myself
Me
Problems
Think
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
Eric Kandel
Thoughts
Experience
Brain
Emotions
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.
Eric Kandel
War
World
Born
Defeat
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 never tried to test its ideas.
Eric Kandel
Science
Medical
Ideas
Problem
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 I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.
Eric Kandel
Learning
Me
Together
Memory
Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.
Eric Kandel
Simple
Memory
Animal
Look
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.
Eric Kandel
Learning
Plastic
Cells
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I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments.
Eric Kandel
You
Hands
Reading
Know
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
Eric Kandel
God
People
Universe
Thought
Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
Eric Kandel
Life
You
Circle
Back
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 was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
Eric Kandel
Life
Passion
Biology
Career
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. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.
Eric Kandel
City
Parents
Loved
Powerful
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 of World War I when they were still very young.
Eric Kandel
War
City
World
Parents
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 that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.
Eric Kandel
People
Mind
Thinking
Community
Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
Eric Kandel
Growth
Memory
Result
New
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 that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.
Eric Kandel
Learning
Simple
You
Experience
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 a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.
Eric Kandel
Nature
Me
You
Brain
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 lie to its people.
Eric Kandel
People
Government
Lie
Thought
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, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
Eric Kandel
Fear
You
Animal
News
You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
Eric Kandel
You
Sometimes
Emotional
Difficult
Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed.
Eric Kandel
People
Trying
Data
More
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 a level as psychopharmacology.
Eric Kandel
Foundation
More
Encourage
Level
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
Eric Kandel
Medical
School
Late
Medical School
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