Neuroscience: breaking down scientific barriers to the study of brain and mind.
In this month's essay, Eric R. Kandel and Larry R. Squire chronicle how brain research has migrated from the peripheries of biology and psychology to assume a central position within those disciplines. The multidiscipline of neuroscience that emerged from this process now ranges from genes to cognition, from molecules to minds.
Kandel
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Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Squire
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