Interview with Eric R. Kandel: From Memory, Free Will, and the Problem with Freud to Fortunate DecisionsEric R. Kandel, M.D. 1,2
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories, 2Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University
Eric R. Kandel shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard in 2000 for their discoveries "concerning signal transduction in the nervous system." In this interview given at Hertie Foundation's Neuroforum 2008 on April 18, 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany, Nobel Prize Laureate Eric R. Kandel takes us on an enlighting journey ranging from memory, free will, "the problem with Freud", to scientific challenges and the rise of European science.
