Cellular Biology of Neurons

by Eric R. Kandel (Editor)

This book is a systematic introduction to functioning of nerve cells that is designed for graduate students in neural science as well as scientists in other fields who want to learn about various aspects of neuronal functioning. With each chapter summarizing principles of important and active
area of research, the volume is organized to emphasize the scope, the directions, and the excitement of modern cellular neurobiology. Advances covered here mark the beginning of an innovative period of research on the cell and on the molecular biology of individual neurons and interconnected groups
of cells.

1238 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.
Kandel was from 1984 to 2022 a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was in 1975 the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Kandel's popularized account chronicling his life and research, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.