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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

Topics: About Community Dominant Early Felt Human Insights Intellectual Mind Mode Motivation New People Potential Psychoanalysis Set Significant Swept Therapeutic Thinking Through 1950S 1960S

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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

Topics: Cause Cells Connections Could Double Experience Expression Genes Growth Learning Long-Term Memory Nerve New Number Reason Result Simple Very Which You

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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

Topics: Career Fairly Go Guided Important Me Myself Person Philosophy Problems Projects Scientific Select Think Thoughtful Throughout Try I Think

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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

Topics: Because Could Critical Government Lie People Reluctant States Thought United United States Wrong

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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

Topics: Cognitive Component Difficult Emotional Except Experiences Learn More Much Often Sometimes Unconscious You

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I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Adult Adult Life Around Art Been Collecting Deal Enjoy Great Great Deal Life Lot Money Much Paper Really Started Them Wife Works

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As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Area Before Beginning Know Long Long Periods Make Most Periods Progress Really Science You

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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

Topics: Ages Aristotle Behavior Bergman First Human Human Mind Mind Nature Oneself Plato Serious Since Socrates Thinkers Thought Through Understand Wise

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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: About Alzheimer Because Disease Enough Live Long Medical Never People Practically Spoke Student Why 1950S

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I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Around Been Biology Converts Define Earlier Interested Interests Led Long Long Term Long Time Me Memory Molecular Short Short Term Switch Term Time

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1929

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