Interview with Eric R. Kandel: From Memory, Free Will, and the Problem with Freud to Fortunate Decisions

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Molecular mechanism underlying short- and long-term memory

1:07

The formation of long-term memory

1:33

Biological memory differs fundamentally from data storage in computers

2:18

Free will: the role of consciousness and strong evidence for its existence

4:07

Entering business

5:38

Being a scientific advisor at Memory Pharmaceuticals

6:29

Predicting the outcome of drug development

6:49

Use and abuse of drugs in children

8:01

Merging of scientific disciplines

10:33

Ego, super-ego, and id

10:55

The problem with Freud

13:12

Fortunate decisions

14:23

Adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus: challenging the work of Eric Kandel?

15:50

The quality of scientific controversy changes

16:40

"Arthur", the genome of rice, and the revival of theory