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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

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If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

~Eric Kandel

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Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

~Eric Kandel

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My heart beats in three-quarter time.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Beats Heart Time

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It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.

~Eric Kandel

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If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

~Eric Kandel

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The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Bases Biological Cannot Disorders Fact Heart In Fact Liver Many Most Near Nowhere People Point Problem Psychiatric Them Underlying Understand Understanding We Cannot Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1929

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