The first American and second ever psychiatrist to win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, Kandel (Columbia U.) has focused his research on the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia and mice. The eight essays here, written over the course of 30 years, explore such topics as a new intellectual framework for psychiatry, neurobiology and molecular biology, and the molecular biology of memory storage as a dialogue between genes and synapses. Scholars of neurological and mental sciences comment on each. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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