Memory: From Mind to Molecules

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Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, two of the world's leading experts address memory from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition. What is memory and where in the brain is it stored How is memory storage accomplished This book touches on these questions and many more, showing how the recent convergence of psychology and biology has resulted in an exciting new synthesis of knowledge about learning and remembering. Memory: From Mind to Molecules is an ideal primer for courses on learning and memory or for general readers who are interested in discovering what is currently known about one of the basic aspects of human existence.

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"In a book that is as fascinating as it is authoritative,Larry Squire and Eric Kandel explain the insights andbreakthroughs that have illuminated the mysteriesof memory."Daniel L. Schacter, Harvard University"A masterly and enthralling synthesis."Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller University"A lucid and engaging book by two grandmastersof the field."Samuel H. Barondes, UC San Francisco"Few areas of neuroscience are ready to boast of anunderstanding that spans from molecules to minds.Memory is ready, and Squire and Kandel, two of theleading researchers who got us there, take us on adelightful journey, explaining not just current factsbut also the often fascinating history behind the bigdiscoveries. I loved it and recommend this veryreadable and beautifully illustrated book to all whowant to know how memory works."Joseph LeDoux, New York University

Author Bio

Larry R. Squire is professor of psychiatry, neurosciences, and psychology at the University of California School ofMedicine, San Diego, and Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego. The authorof Memory and Brain, he has received many awards, including the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awardfrom the American Psychological Association and the Karl Lashey Prize from the American Philosophical Society.Eric R. Kandel founded the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University in New York, where he iscurrently University Professor and Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The coauthor ofPrinciples of Neural Science, he has won many prestigious awards, including the Albert Lasker Basic MedicalResearch Award, the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Biology and Medicine, and the Nobel Prizein Medicine.