The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Written by Eric R. Kandel
Narrated by David Stifel
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"David Stifel provides a confident professorial tone in his narration of [Eric] Kandel's fascinating audiobook. Listeners searching for a fundamental review of neurobiology will find it satisfyingly comprehensive." — AudioFile Magazine
Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts.
In his seminal new audiobook, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain?
The brain’s 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. But sometimes those connections are disrupted. The brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered, resulting in diseases such as autism, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While these disruptions bring great suffering, they can also reveal the mysteries of how the brain produces our most fundamental experiences and capabilities—the very nature of what it means to be human. Studies of autism illuminate the neurological foundations of our social instincts; research into depression offers important insights on emotions and the integrity of the self; and paradigm-shifting work on addiction has led to a new understanding of the relationship between pleasure and willpower.
By studying disruptions to typical brain functioning and exploring their potential treatments, we will deepen our understanding of thought, feeling, behavior, memory, and creativity. Only then can we grapple with the big question of how billions of neurons generate consciousness itself.
Eric R. Kandel
Eric R. Kandel is the 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 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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Totally the best and most in depth general audience neuroscience audiobook. Loved it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coming from a scientist who has spent his entire life.
Working on high energy(Super Yang Mills).This book not only help me realize my drive to succeed at the furthest reaches of my chosen profession (figuring out cross frequencies between fermions and their counterparts in field theory). Not solely but definitely in a huge way of my disability and peoples belief that I could never be successful. I was told I was psychotic from the age of six for believing in the form of math that now does not involve zero (this math definitely exist in quantum physics and what is I currently study & have been obsessed with (the(a) )formula .A colleague & me (me as the only one who understood it as anything more than a simple number sequence and trying to fit it into 11 dimensions for field theory and second person normal XY axis four dimensional)worked 14 years ago . Four over nine months usually over nine hours a day to solve this theory and put it into a formula it is now known as(N= 4) or super yang mills theory and yes I am indeed the main author Neil Hobart Richter.I am indeed schizophrenic manic depressive but this doesn’t in anyway stop or should it hinder anything I’ve done scientifically watch this book reaffirm to myself which was one of the most gratifying things I have ever felt. Going manic to the point of being hospitalized in this pursuit of a formula no less than five times throughout the course of my life.
quantum physics (the theory )(psychotic manic depressive person),(and why )but the knowledge that I’m not the alone person in this world with this pursuit (for extreme high excellence in chosen field)in mind though it’s not the only reason I strive for success it is and will always be in the forefront!
I love this book because I did several thesis is in fine art and the author has written amazing books on fine artand & cognitive science and how it relates to the art of the early 20th century hope you read it thanks again to the author!!! he is one of the most brilliant man on earth!
He captivates me every time I get to listen to those books! I reading him over and over again you will be smarter than your professors ever dreamed of being
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