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Eric 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
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Neural Mechanisms in Behavior
Molecular Aspects of Neurobiology

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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.