biography
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Kandel, Eric (Richard)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Neurobiologist and educator, born in Vienna. He emigrated to the USA in 1939, and became a professor at Columbia University (1983) and senior investigator at Columbia's Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1984). During the 1970s and 1980s he worked on cellular and molecular mechanisms of three basic forms of learning, habituation, sensitization, and classical conditioning. His findings suggest that learning produces changes in behaviour by modulating the strength of neural connections. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. |
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