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Jacob and Monod not only outlined a theory of gene regulation, they also discovered the first regulators of gene transcription. These regulators come in two forms-repressors, genes that encode the regulatory proteins that shut genes off, and as later work showed, activators, genes that encode the regulatory proteins that turn genes on. (Eric Kandel)
Exceptionally good memory exhibited by some people may stem from genetic differences in CREB-2 that limit the activity of this repressor protein in relation to CREB-1. View quote
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The same CREB switch is important for many forms of implicit memory in a variety of other species, from bees to mice to people. View quote
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Implicit memory is responsible not only for simple perceptual and motor skills but also, in principle, for the pirouettes of Margot Fonteyn, the trumpeting techniques of Wynton Marsalis, the accurate ground strokes of Andre Agassi, and the leg movements of an adolescent. Implicit memory guides us through well-established routines that are not consciously controlled. View quote
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Aspects of visual perception-motion, depth, form, and color-are segregated from one another and conveyed in separate pathways in the brain, where they are brought together and coordinated into a unified perception. View quote
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Long-term potentiation helps stabalize the internal representation of space, and... attention, a defining feature of explicit memory storage, modulates the representation of space. View quote
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For some representations of space the brain typically uses egocentric coordinates (centered on the receiver)... For other behaviors... the brain uses allocentric coordinates (centered on the world). View quote
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I was astonished to discover that working in the laboratory-doing science in collaboration with interesting and creative people-is dramatically different from taking courses and reading about science. View quote
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We now understand that every mental state and every mental disorder is a disorder of brain function. Treatments work by altering the structure and function of the brain. View quote
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Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area. View quote
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I entered Harvard to become a historian and left to become a psychoanalyst, only to abandon both... to follow my intuition that the road to a real understanding of mind must pass through the cellular pathways of the brain. (Eric Kandel)
The portraits of the Viennese modernists, with their conscious and dramatic attempts to depict their subject's inner feelings, represent an ideal example of how psychological and biological insights can enrich our relationship with art. View quote
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One of the characteristic features of Viennese life at this time was the continual, easy interaction of artists, writers, and thinkers with scientists. View quote
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The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths. View quote
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As the art historian Emily Braun has documented, Klimt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell... Thus, the small iconographic images on Adelle's dress are not simply decorative... they are symbols of male and female cells: rectangular sperm and ovoid eggs. ...designed to match the sitter's seductive face and her full-blown reproductive capacities. View quote
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In Vienna, Modernism had three main characteristics. The first was the new view of the human mind as being largely irrational by nature. ...they questioned what constitutes reality, what lies below the surface appearances of people, objects, and events. ...They discovered that ...people harbor not only unconscious erotic feelings, but also unconscious aggressive impulses that are directed against themselves as well as against others. Freud later called these dark impulses the death instinct. View quote
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The remarkable insight that characterized Klimt's later work was contemporaneous with Freud's psychological studies and presaged the inward turn that would pervade all fields of inquiry. View quote
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As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. View quote
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Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life. View quote
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In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way. View quote
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The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart. (Eric Kandel)
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian. View quote
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The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. View quote
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One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy. View quote
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It spawned an ongoing pursuit to link these disciplines. View quote
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