The genre of this book can be described as «scientific autobiography». Memories of childhood in Hitler-annexed Austria intersect here with descriptions of the biochemical processes that take place in the human brain.
The genre of this book can be described as «scientific autobiography». Memories of childhood in Hitler-annexed Austria intersect here with descriptions of the biochemical processes that take place in the human brain. The combination is certainly unique. But the author himself, Eric Kandel, a neuroscientist and biochemist, is also unique, a Nobel Prize winner for research on the molecular mechanisms of memory. And perhaps it was just natural for him to write just such a book. Kandel could not tell about his life in a different way, because the creation of the science of the biological foundations of the psyche is the main work of his life. Therefore, he writes about protein interactions, laboratory experiments and theoretical discussions as vividly and fascinatingly as about the first erotic experience or the flight from Vienna …
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