Kandel’s work, which earned him the , revolutionized our understanding of how neurons communicate:
(originally In Search of Memory ) is a groundbreaking 2006 memoir by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel . It seamlessly interweaves Kandel's personal history—starting with his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna—with the intellectual history of how a "new science of the mind" emerged over the last 50 years . Core Narrative & Personal History The book is structured around two parallel stories: En Busca De La Memoria Eric R Kandel epub
Kandel posits that "we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember," grounding human identity in molecular processes . Kandel’s work, which earned him the , revolutionized
He demonstrated that learning causes physical and chemical changes in the strength of connections (synapses) between nerve cells . which earned him the