Quickpost: Profile of Nobel Prize Winning Neuroscientist Eric Kandel

It's important to know the leaders in any field you're studying. For us interested in the brain, some of the most exciting discoveries come from neuroscience -- so when I found this great profile of Eric Kandel on Scientific American, I couldn't resist posting it. Kandel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology (with a couple other scientists) in 2000 for discovering how plastic the brain is -- that we don't learn by changing neurons, but instead by altering the connections (synapses) between them. Fabulous article, unfortunately SciAm has it locked behind a pay wall, so make sure to click if you're from Berkeley or have institutional access: http://www.nature.com/scientificamericanmind/journal/v18/n5/full/scientificamericanmind1007-32.html

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