埃里克·坎德尔(Eric R.Kandel)1929年出生于奥地利的维也纳,1956年毕业于美国纽约大学,获医学博士学位。1983年至今任哥伦比亚大学生物化学与分子生物物理学系教授、霍华休斯医学研究中心高级研究员。2000年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
发表于2024-05-02
In Search of Memory 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本书的名字跟出了名难读的《追忆似水年华》太像了,以至于我鼓不起勇气读它。翻看它的介绍,发现体量巨大,正文455页,前言注释什么的100多页,这也是障碍之一。而且,书的副标题“新心智科学的开创历程”,也有拒人千里之功——它很像机场书店的书名。诺贝尔奖得主的名头为...
评分这是一本不可多得的好书,五星推荐。 书名“in search of memory”一语双关,一方面指作者的研究领域,一方面又指本书的内容:凭借记忆写出的人生自传。 说起脑科学,在数年前差点和它结下缘分。当时在研究生入学选择时有几个可能的去处,其中之一是中科院脑认知科学研究所(似...
评分从来没有一本科普书让我感觉到这么肌无力,虽然连续攻读了几天,做了十几页笔记,依然觉得这本书信息量太大,思考过于深邃,难以一时消化。我仅有的薄弱的高中生物学知识常常在一些稍微专业的生物学概念和术语上很迷惘,而我的专业知识却集中在制造业和IT之上,因此只能大...
评分研究记忆的人经常会说我们对于分子机制了解的太多而对环路机制了解的太少。考虑到记忆中最重要的分子机制(例如cAMP通路)大部分都是由本书作者的实验室发现的,我们就可以理解他的贡献有多么重要。 此书基本上是作者对自己科学生涯的回顾,按照年代次序描述了他主要的科学发...
评分再谈本书的内容 拿着印厂送来的实体书,我花几天时间通读了一遍。这是一个痛并快乐着的过程。阅读体验本身是很快乐的,特别是面对这样一本手不释卷的佳作;无奈我一边读一边还想着给文本捉虫,实际上相当于同时开动两个脑子在读,字面意义地有时真的会张嘴朗读以检查通顺感,字...
图书标签: 心理学 神经科学 Neuroscience 科普 传记 思维 英文原版 记忆
From Publishers Weekly
When, as a medical student in the 1950s, Kandel said he wanted to locate the ego and id in the brain, his mentor told him he was overreaching, that the brain had to be studied "cell by cell." After his initial dismay, Kandel took on the challenge and in 2000 was awarded a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research showing how memory is encoded in the brain's neuronal circuits. Kandel's journey into the brain spans five decades, beginning in the era of early research into the role of electrical currents flowing through neurons and ending in the age of genetic engineering. It took him from early studies of reflexes in the lowly squid to the founding of a bioengineering firm whose work could some day develop treatments for Alzheimer's and on to a rudimentary understanding of the cellular mechanisms underlying mental illness. Kandel's life also took him on another journey: from Vienna, which his Jewish family fled after the Anschluss, to New York City and, decades later, on visits back to Vienna, where he boldly confronted Austria's unwillingness to look at its collusion in the Final Solution. For anyone considering a career in science, the early part of this intellectual autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of a scientist's formation: learning to trust his instincts on what research to pursue and how to pose a researchable question and formulate an experiment. Much of the science discussion is too dense for the average reader. But for anyone interested in the relationship between the mind and the brain, this is an important account of a creative and highly fruitful career. 50 b&w illus. (Mar.)
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From Scientific American
Kandel, who received the Nobel Prize in 2000, traces advances in understanding learning and memory. His own groundbreaking findings showed that learning produces changes in behavior by modifying the strength of connections between nerve cells. He conveys his immense grasp of the science beautifully, but it is his personal recollections that make the book especially compelling. He begins with his searing childhood memories of the German annexation of Austria and his family’s escape to the U.S. when he was nine. And he ends with a conference he organized in Vienna to examine the strange reluctance of Austria (unlike Germany) to acknowledge its role in the Holocaust. One comes away in awe of the scientific advances—and of a life well and fully lived.
Editors of Scientific American --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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评分这本书其实就是Kandel个人的研究史成长史,对个人的学术过程有详尽的叙述,所以不适合并不关心他本人的人观看,看到一半,我都烦了。
评分好看!
评分这书应该叫《科学家的自我修养》。同时也是神经科学很好的入门书(前提是你要有一些生物化学方面的知识)。
评分最大的感想是,虽然之前已经读过多遍还写了辣么长的书评,但在此次翻译过程中,我再一次深深地被洗脑,写得太特么好了,要是在翻译上出了问题,那是我的莫大罪过。又,我挑出了本书存在的十余处表述错误哦也。
In Search of Memory 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书