2000年，坎德尔博士因其对神经系统学领域的开创性贡献与保罗格林加德共同获得诺贝尔生理学和医学奖。值得一提的是，他因在神经细胞记忆存储的生理学基础方面的研究获得这份殊荣。坎德尔博士还获得其他多个奖项，包括美国国家科学勋章、艾伯特拉斯克医学研究奖（Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award）、盖尔德纳国际医学科学杰出成就奖（Gairdner International Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Science）、沃尔夫奖，等等。他还获得18个荣誉学位。
坎德尔博士因主编《神经科学原理》而备受赞誉。他的自传《追寻记忆的痕迹》（In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind）叙述了他非凡的生活和职业成就，曾荣获《洛杉矶时报》图书奖。他的其他著作包括Cellular Basis of Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neurobiology，Behavioral Biology of Aplysia: A Contribution to the Comparative Study of Opisthobranch Molluscs，Molecular Neurobiology in Neurology and Psychiatry和Memory: From Mind to Molecules（与 Larry R.Squire 合著）。
Contrary to an intuitive analysis of our personal experience, perceptions are not precise copies of the world around us. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication, of reality. The brain's circuits construct an internal representation of external physical events after first analyzing various features of those events. When we hold an object in the hand, the shape, movement, and texture of the object are simultaneously analyzed in different brain regions according to the brain's own rules, and the results are integrated in a conscious experience.
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THE LAST FRONTIER OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES–the ultimate challenge–is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the brain processes by which we feel, act, learn, and remember. During the past few decades, a remarkable unification within the biological sciences has set the stage for addressing this great challenge. The ability to sequence genes and infer the amino acid sequences of the proteins they encode has revealed unanticipated similarities between proteins in the nervous system and those encountered elsewhere in the body. As a result, it has become possible to establish a general plan for the function of cells, a plan that provides a common conceptual framework for all of cell biology, including cellular neural science. The current challenge in the unification within bi... (查看原文)
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