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Travel a while in Eric Kandel’s shoes

For a peek into the life and past of famed neuroscientist Eric Kandel, check out the new documentary “In Search of Memory” (which also happens to be the name of his well-regarded memoir). Here in Chicago, it’s playing through the week of Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, at the Facets Cinémathèque in [...]

Eric Kandel on the Year in Neuroscience

Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel sees promise in a new strain of genetics and psychotherapy, if not new drugs, for psychiatric illnesses, in a transcript we posted on the Dana site this week of a conversation during the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting this year. 
If we get markers for most psychiatric illnesses, and we can [...]