Robert Gladding,NIMH

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Robert Gladding,NIMH

• Nuclear medicine technology
• Emphasis on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) of
  the brain
• Molecular Imaging branch
• Development, Evaluation of radiotracers for
  imaging different receptor systems in rodent,
  monkey and human brain

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In Search of MemoryTHE EMERGENCE OF A NEW
SCIENCE OF MINDEric R. KandelWINNER OF THE
NOBEL PRIZE
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Preface

• Two stories interwoven into the book.
• An intellectual history of the study of mind over
  the last fifty years.
• A memoir of the authors career and life.
• The book is an account of how the authors
  personal quest to understand memory has
  intersected with the attempt to understand mind
  in molecular biological terms.

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SECTION ONE

• PERSONAL MEMORY AND THE BIOLOGY OF MEMORY STORAGE
• 2. A CHILDHOOD IN VIENNA
• 3. AN AMERICAN EDUCATION

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PERSONAL MEMORY AND THE BIOLOGY OF MEMORY STORAGE

• Dr. Kandel cannot help but question the
  relationship between the actions interests of
  ones adult life and the experiences of childhood.
• His investigative work in the field of memory
  scientifically attempts to explain the biological
  basis of memory.
• Memory is essential not only for the continuity
  of individual identity but also for the
  transmission of culture and for the evolution and
  continuity of societies over centuries."

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A CHILDHOOD IN VIENNA

• Erich Kandel, Jewish, born November 1929, Vienna,
  Austria.
• Vienna, a center for great music and art,
  birthplace of psychoanalysis and modern
  philosophy but with a simmering anti-Semitism
  that quickly reaches a boiling point.
• Dr. Kandel describes in heartbreaking detail how
  such a beautiful city could at the same time be
  such a hateful city.
• Fortunately for the Kandel family, and the world,
  escape to America comes just days before the
  outbreak of the great war.

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AN AMERICAN EDUCATION

• Brooklyn
• Yeshiva Erasmus Hall Harvard
• It is difficult to capture today the fascination
  psychoanalysis held for young people in the
  1950s.
• Although influenced by many the strong writing
  and similar background he shared with Dr. Freud
  led him down a path that would ultimately gain
  Dr. Kandel the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• Lets not forget about love.

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SUMMARY

• It will be quite evident as the reviews of the
  book continue, that this is an extremely
  important work for anyone who is in the field of
  neuroscience or just has a natural curiosity of
  how the brain stores and recalls.

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