埃裏剋·坎德爾(Eric R.Kandel)1929年齣生於奧地利的維也納,1956年畢業於美國紐約大學,獲醫學博士學位。1983年至今任哥倫比亞大學生物化學與分子生物物理學係教授、霍華休斯醫學研究中心高級研究員。2000年獲諾貝爾生理學或醫學奬。
From Publishers Weekly
When, as a medical student in the 1950s, Kandel said he wanted to locate the ego and id in the brain, his mentor told him he was overreaching, that the brain had to be studied "cell by cell." After his initial dismay, Kandel took on the challenge and in 2000 was awarded a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research showing how memory is encoded in the brain's neuronal circuits. Kandel's journey into the brain spans five decades, beginning in the era of early research into the role of electrical currents flowing through neurons and ending in the age of genetic engineering. It took him from early studies of reflexes in the lowly squid to the founding of a bioengineering firm whose work could some day develop treatments for Alzheimer's and on to a rudimentary understanding of the cellular mechanisms underlying mental illness. Kandel's life also took him on another journey: from Vienna, which his Jewish family fled after the Anschluss, to New York City and, decades later, on visits back to Vienna, where he boldly confronted Austria's unwillingness to look at its collusion in the Final Solution. For anyone considering a career in science, the early part of this intellectual autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of a scientist's formation: learning to trust his instincts on what research to pursue and how to pose a researchable question and formulate an experiment. Much of the science discussion is too dense for the average reader. But for anyone interested in the relationship between the mind and the brain, this is an important account of a creative and highly fruitful career. 50 b&w illus. (Mar.)
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From Scientific American
Kandel, who received the Nobel Prize in 2000, traces advances in understanding learning and memory. His own groundbreaking findings showed that learning produces changes in behavior by modifying the strength of connections between nerve cells. He conveys his immense grasp of the science beautifully, but it is his personal recollections that make the book especially compelling. He begins with his searing childhood memories of the German annexation of Austria and his family’s escape to the U.S. when he was nine. And he ends with a conference he organized in Vienna to examine the strange reluctance of Austria (unlike Germany) to acknowledge its role in the Holocaust. One comes away in awe of the scientific advances—and of a life well and fully lived.
Editors of Scientific American --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
五年了。 在我提笔撰写这篇序言时,脑海里正经历着一次心理时间旅行,围绕本书翻译工作的种种记忆及情绪涌上心头。这些往事对我个人来说很有意义,却没必要与读者分享。作为一名把这本书通读过许多遍的“资深”读者,我试图站在读者的角度,分享这部笔酣墨饱之作的吸睛之处,并...
評分 評分 評分五年了。 在我提笔撰写这篇序言时,脑海里正经历着一次心理时间旅行,围绕本书翻译工作的种种记忆及情绪涌上心头。这些往事对我个人来说很有意义,却没必要与读者分享。作为一名把这本书通读过许多遍的“资深”读者,我试图站在读者的角度,分享这部笔酣墨饱之作的吸睛之处,并...
信息量比較大,一本書看瞭一個多月,中間總是停下來查各種概念性的問題,挺後悔沒有學理科的。刷新瞭我對記憶和學習的認知,作者說話的口氣,做事的態度非常喜歡!
评分這本書其實就是Kandel個人的研究史成長史,對個人的學術過程有詳盡的敘述,所以不適閤並不關心他本人的人觀看,看到一半,我都煩瞭。
评分Only 16%
评分此書將我領入神經科學的世界。他是學術大牛,也是很好的presenter。
评分有些地方讀的好痛苦,可能是缺乏相關知識~~~
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