Eric Kandel

Also known as Eric Richard Kandel, Erich Richard Kandel, Erich Kandel, Eric R. Kandel, Eric R Kandel, E. R. Kandel, E R Kandel, E. Kandel

American neuropsychiatrist

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Eric Kandel is an American neuropsychiatrist who has made significant contributions to understanding how the brain works, particularly in the study of memory and learning at the cellular level. His research is important because it has helped explain the biological mechanisms underlying memory formation, advancing our fundamental knowledge of how the brain functions.

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Born: 07 November 1929
Works: 63

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Neurociencia y conducta
Zaburzony umysĹ. Co nietypowe mĂlzgi mĂlwiÄ o nas samych - Kandell Eric [KSIÄĹťKA]
Essentials Neural Science Beha
Neural Mechanisms in Behavior
Molecular Aspects of Neurobiology

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5 total works indexed

Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,762x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,720x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,533x
The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,593x
Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,016x

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Quotes

“As knowledge advances and scientific disciplines change, so do the disciplines impinging on them.”
“In the period from 1920 to 1960, psychiatry derived its main intellectual impetus from psychoanalysis. During this phase, its most powerful antidisciplines were philosophy and the social sciences. Since 1960, psychiatry has begun (again) to derive its main intellectual challenge from biology, with the result that neurobiology has been thrust into the position of the new antidiscipline for psychiatry.”
“In the near future, neurobiology will address a matter of more general and fundamental importance: the biology of human mental processes. ...Psychology and psychiatry can illuminate and define for biology the mental functions that need to be studied if we are to have a meaningful and sophisticated understanding of the biology of the human mind.”
“The Age of Insight is a product of my... fascination with the intellectual history of Vienna from 1890 to 1918, as well as my interest in Austrian modernist art, psychoanalysis, art history, and the brain science that is my life's work. ...I examine the ongoing dialogue between art and science that had its origins in fin-de-siècle Vienna and document its three major phases.”
“Five separate pulses of serotonin, designed to simulate five shocks to the tail, strengthened the synaptic connection for days and led to the growth of new synaptic connections... that did involve the synthesis of new protein.”
“Jacques Monod... published a paper entitled "Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Synthesis of Protein." Using bacteria as a model system, they made the remarkable discovery that genes can be regulated—that is, they can be switched on and off like a water faucet.”

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Commons category: Eric Kandel
date of birth: 1929-11-07
Erdős number: 4
name in native language: Eric Richard Kandel
described at URL: uskudar.edu.tr/tr/bilim-insani/eric-kandel
P8168: Marignier
affiliation string: Columbia University

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Eric Richard Kandel ( German: [ˈkandəl]; born Erich Richard Kandel, November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.

Kandel was from 1984 to 2022 a senior investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was in 1975 the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.