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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

Topics: Artistic City Cultural Dialect Exerted Genuinely Hold Jews Later Learned Loved Other Parents Powerful Sophistication Them Values Vienna Why Years

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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

Topics: Beginning Born City Come Each Had Having Lives Much Parents Spent Still Very Vienna War Were World World War World War I Young

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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

Topics: Became Behind Body Fact Freud Ideas Left Medical Never Problem Psychoanalysis Science Test Theory Tried

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Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Changes Connections Enduring Growth Involves Long-Term Memory New Result

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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

Topics: After Became Biologist Brain Clear Come Got Human Interested Me Mental Nature Need Order Processes Psychoanalysis Them Understand Which While You

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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

Topics: Appeal Biology Borders Bringing Disciplines Idea Learning Like Liked Me Memory Much Problems Psychology Reasons Together

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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

Topics: Also Animal Bad Bad News Electrical Fear Learned Learns Like Neutral Never News Opposite Order Other Pair Produce Shock Stimulus Take Times Tone You

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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.

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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

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Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1929

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