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The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

~ Eric Kandel

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The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

~ Eric Kandel

Became Behind Body Fact Freud Ideas Left Medical Never Problem Psychoanalysis Science Test Theory Tried

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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

~ Eric Kandel

Academic Become Biology Career Early Early Life Fact In Fact Indicate Interest Life Little Passion Suggest Would

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What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

~ Eric Kandel

Approach Encourage Foundation Holistic Hoping Level More Psychiatry Psychotherapy Put Rigorous Which

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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

~ Eric Kandel

1950s About Alzheimer Because Disease Enough Live Long Medical Never People Practically Spoke Student Why

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You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

~ Eric Kandel

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You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.

~ Eric Kandel

Cognitive Component Difficult Emotional Emotional Experiences Except Experiences Learn More Much Often Sometimes Unconscious You

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