From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds

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Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel explores his career in brain science and its connection to art through the lens of his autobiography, where he reflects on how his experience as a young Jewish boy in Vienna 1938 has shaped his life as a scientist and a thinker. His recent book Reductionism in Art and Brain Science—Bridging the Two Worlds is one of several in which he finds common ground between neuroscience and humanistic questions.  
<A HREF="http://neuroscience.columbia.edu/profile/erickandel" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eric R. Kandel</A>, MD, is University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Co-Director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Dr. Kandel has explored the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in the sea slug Aplysia and mice, and expanded his research to animal models of memory disorders, mental illness, and drug abuse. He has received over 20 honorary degrees and is a member of the US and four other national academies of science; and he has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Harvey Prize and the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science USA, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Dr. Kandel has published two books on the intersection of art and science: <A HREF="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89556/the-age-of-insight-by-eric-r-kandel/9781400068715/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present</A>, and his latest, <A HREF="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/reductionism-in-art-and-brain-science/9780231179621" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures</A>.
 
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