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The Disordered Mind : What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves
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by Kandel, Eric R

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How does the mind arise from the physical matter of the brain? A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist shares his probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human nature.

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  • Title The Disordered Mind : What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves
  • Author Kandel, Eric R
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 40713035-75
  • ISBN 9780374538446 / 0374538441
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mental Processes - physiology, Neuropsychiatry
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.89

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About the author

Eric R. Kandel is a University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory, he is the author of In Search of Memory, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which won the Bruno Kreisky Award in Literature, Austria's highest literary award; and Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, a book about the New York School of abstract art. He is also the coauthor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field.