num_pages: 528
description: "A stunning book." Oliver SacksCharting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology have converged into a powerful new science of mind. This science now provides nuanced insights into normal mental functioning and disease, and simultaneously opens pathways to more effective healing.Driven by vibrant curiosity, Kandel's personal quest to understand memory is threaded throughout this absorbing history. Beginning with his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna, In Search of Memory chronicles Kandel's outstanding career from his initial fascination with history and psychoanalysis to his groundbreaking work on the biological process of memory, which earned him the Nobel Prize.A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory traces how a brilliant scientist's intellectual journey intersected with one of the great scientific endeavors of the twentieth century: the search for the biological basis of memory. 50 illustrations.
language: English
title: In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
titlecomplete: In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
genres: Biology, Neuroscience, Biography, Science, Brain, Medicine, Psychology, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 5016
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Science and Technology
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company