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Cellular Basis of Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neurology

Cellular Basis of Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neurology This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract In a routine review, Kandel's own sentence, "The accelerated progress in cell biology during the past ten years has led to concepts and methods that have made it possible to analyze behavior in a more fundamental way than previously," could have been used as a convenient opening phrase. Cellular Basis of Behavior, however, is more than its subtitle, An Introduction to Behavioral Neurobiology, suggests and also more than a text "usable by undergraduate and graduate students—even those having little background in behavior, neurobiology or invertebrate zoology,... an overview... for scientists in other fields" would need to be. It is a carefully formulated personal statement about an area whose landscape still reveals cracks and craters, traces of the violent action that has shaped it for decades. An investigator dedicated to the study of behavior is still embattled on many fronts, each of them demanding different strategies and tactics for action, defense http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Neurology American Medical Association

Cellular Basis of Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neurology

Archives of Neurology , Volume 34 (10) – Oct 1, 1977

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9942
eISSN
1538-3687
DOI
10.1001/archneur.1977.00500220086026
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract In a routine review, Kandel's own sentence, "The accelerated progress in cell biology during the past ten years has led to concepts and methods that have made it possible to analyze behavior in a more fundamental way than previously," could have been used as a convenient opening phrase. Cellular Basis of Behavior, however, is more than its subtitle, An Introduction to Behavioral Neurobiology, suggests and also more than a text "usable by undergraduate and graduate students—even those having little background in behavior, neurobiology or invertebrate zoology,... an overview... for scientists in other fields" would need to be. It is a carefully formulated personal statement about an area whose landscape still reveals cracks and craters, traces of the violent action that has shaped it for decades. An investigator dedicated to the study of behavior is still embattled on many fronts, each of them demanding different strategies and tactics for action, defense

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Archives of NeurologyAmerican Medical Association

Published: Oct 1, 1977

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