The Unusual Brain of Dr. Eric Kandel : 538
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is an Austrian-American who emigrated from Vienna to Brooklyn in 1939 at the age of 9, Dr. Eric Kandel will celebrate nearly nine decades of curiosity, study and incredible scientific discovery at his upcoming 89th birthday on November 7 (about the time this podcast will air).
Dr. Kandel is a renowned neuroscientist with a psychiatric background who is considered one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts.
Dr. Kandel has been described by a colleague as: "one of the truly great intellects, ... one of the greatest scientists and greatest neuroscientists of the last 100 years.” “…[He has] this wonderful far-reaching mind that is not afraid ... to ask questions, to be integrative, to take a bold leap of imagination.”
Today, Dr. Kandel tells us about his research on the biological foundations of memory and his newest book, “The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell us About Ourselves.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.8 | Today's guest is Dr. Eric Candell. |
| 0:20.6 | He is a Nobel Prize-winning renowned neuroscientist with a psychiatric background and truly one of |
| 0:28.3 | the pioneers of modern brain science. |
| 0:31.0 | He's been described by a colleague as one of the truly great intellects, one of the greatest |
| 0:36.2 | scientists and greatest neuroscientists of the last hundred years, and something I would |
| 0:41.7 | agree with. |
| 0:42.7 | Dr. Candell, my wife studied at the Carolin's Institute where you gave an acceptance speech |
| 0:48.1 | and she was actually in the audience when you accepted it and she asked me to tell you |
| 0:53.1 | at the beginning of the interview that your medical textbook was her favorite book in all |
| 0:59.1 | of medical school. |
| 1:00.8 | And so she was really excited when she found out that we were going to give a chance to speak |
| 1:05.8 | life. |
| 1:06.8 | So truly an honor to have you on the show. |
| 1:08.3 | But I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:11.0 | You recently wrote a book called The Disordered Mind, What Unusual Brains Tell Us About |
| 1:17.2 | Ourselves. |
| 1:19.6 | After decades and decades of research and looking at the mind, what do unusual brains, what |
| 1:28.2 | do they tell us about ourselves? |
| 1:31.4 | What can we all learn from this? |
| 1:32.7 | I've never had a chance to talk to someone who has this much knowledge in one brain and |
| 1:37.2 | ask that one, what do we learn, the one point? |
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