В поисках памяти

V etoy knige, posvyashchennoy istorii vozniknoveniya i razvitiya nauki o biologicheskoy osnove chelovecheskoy psikhiki, Erik Kandel razyasnyaet revolyutsionnye dostizheniya sovremennoy biologii i prolivaet svet na to, kak bikheviorizm, kognitivnaya psikhologiya i molekulyarnaya biologiya porodili novuyu nauku. Kniga nachinaetsya s vospominaniy o detstve v okkupirovannoy natsistami Vene i opisyvaet nauchnuyu kareru Kandelya, ot ego rannego uvlecheniya istoriey i psikhoanalizom do novatorskikh rabot v oblasti izucheniya kletochnykh i molekulyarnykh mekhanizmov pamyati, za kotorye on udostoilsya Nobelevskoy premii. Eta kniga - o poiske biologicheskikh osnov chelovecheskoy pamyati.