One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy. Eric Kandel biologybrainchallenge Change image and share on social
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 bodyfactfreud Change image and share on social
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior. Eric Kandel aeschylusagearistotle share on social
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. Eric Kandel areabeginlong Change image and share on social
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. Eric Kandel datedayfascinate Change image and share on social
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 animalbadelectrical share on social
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine. Eric Kandel carlclinicalfounder share on social
