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 .

To study memory at a cellular level, Kandel famously utilized the giant sea slug ( Aplysia californica ), which has large, easily identifiable neurons . En Busca De La Memoria Eric R Kandel epub

Kandel recounts his early years in Vienna, where his family faced persecution following the 1938 Nazi annexation . This trauma fueled his lifelong fascination with memory and human behavior, leading him from a background in history and psychoanalysis to a career in neurobiology . Kandel posits that "we are who we are

Kandel’s work, which earned him the , revolutionized our understanding of how neurons communicate: This trauma fueled his lifelong fascination with memory

He demonstrated that learning causes physical and chemical changes in the strength of connections (synapses) between nerve cells .