Principles of Neural Science. Second Edition.

Kandel, Eric R. & Schwartz, James H. (Eds.)

Publication Date: 1985

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New York, Amsterdam, Oxford, Elsevier, 1985, 4°, XXXVIII, 979, (2) pp., zahlreiche Abbildungen. orig. Leinenband. "Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. Through it, in particular, we think, see, hear, and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant. . . . It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness, and acts that are contrary to habit. These things that we suffer all come from the brain, when it is not healthy, but becomes abnormally hot, cold, moist, or dry, or suffers any other unnatural affection to which it was not accustomed. Madness comes from its moistness. When the brain is abnormally moist, of necessity it moves, and when it moves neither sight nor hearing are still, but we see or hear now one thing and now another, and the tongue speaks in accordance with the things seen and heard on any occasion. But all the time the brain is still, a man can think properly. attributed to Hippocrates, Fifth Century, b.c." Eric Richard Kandel ; born Erich Richard Kandel (1929- ) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, 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. Seller Inventory # 69641

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Title: Principles of Neural Science. Second Edition.

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Hardcover