The Disordered Mind

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by Eric R. Kandel


  Prozac

  Prusiner, Stanley

  psychiatric disorders; bipolar disorder; creativity and; depression; genetics and; narrowing divide between neurological disorders and; schizophrenia; in twins

  psychiatry; divide between neurology and; history of; origins of modern

  psychoanalysis; new biology of mind and

  psychology

  psychopathic behavior, biology of

  psychopharmacology

  psychotherapy; for anxiety disorders; for bipolar disorder; for depression; drug therapy with; history of; for schizophrenia

  psychotic art; impact on modern art

  puberty; blockers

  qualitative feeling

  rabbits

  race

  Raichle, Marcus

  rare variations

  RbAp48 gene

  readiness potential

  realism

  reality

  reality principle

  reflexes

  refrigerator mother

  relapse

  Renaissance

  repression

  reptiles

  reserpine

  reticular activating system

  reward; addiction and; animal models of; biology of; dopamine and

  Richards, Ruth

  Riegl, Alois

  right anterior insula

  risperidone

  RNA

  Robins, Lee

  Rockefeller University

  Rodrigues, Sarina

  Roeske, Thomas

  Romanticism

  Roose, Steven

  Rosenthal, Stephen

  Rothbaum, Barbara

  Rousseau, Henri; The Sleeping Gypsy

  Rowland, Lewis

  Royal Academy of Arts

  Rudacille, Deborah, The Riddle of Gender

  Rush, Benjamin

  Sacks, Oliver

  sadness

  St. Clair, David

  Saks, Elyn; The Center Cannot Hold

  Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics

  Salpêtrière hospital, Paris

  Salzman, Daniel

  savants

  Schall, Jeffrey

  Schildkraut, Joseph

  schizophrenia; anatomical abnormalities and; animal models of; biological treatments for; creativity and; decision making and; deleted genes and; dendritic spines and; dopamine and; drugs for; early intervention in; environment and; excessive synaptic pruning and; genetics and; history of; memory and; modeling cognitive symptoms of; onset of; psychotherapy for; symptoms of; terminology; treatment for; in twins

  Schooler, Jonathan

  Schultz, Wolfram

  Scoville, William

  Searle, John

  Sea View Hospital, Staten Island

  secondary motor cortex

  seizures

  Sekar, Aswin

  selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

  self; bipolar disorder and; brain disorders and; consciousness and; dementia and; depression and; emotions and; sexual differentiation and gender identity

  senses; consciousness and; neurons

  sensory feedback neurons

  serotonin

  sex; abuse; addiction; aggression and; anatomical; animal models; chromosomal; differentiation of the brain and gender identity; dimorphisms in human brain; gonadal; hormones; promiscuity; transgender

  sex changes operation

  sexual dimorphisms

  Shadlen, Michael

  Shakespeare, William, Hamlet

  shame

  Sherrington, Charles

  Shohamy, Daphna

  shoplifting

  shopping addiction

  simple genetic illness

  Simpson, Eleanor

  Singer, Alison

  single-nucleotide variations

  single-photo emission computed tomography (SPECT)

  skull

  sleep; bipolar disorder and; depression and; lack of

  Small, Scott

  smell

  smoking

  snails

  SNCA gene

  Snyder, Allan

  social brain; in animals; autism and; neural circuitry of; terminology; theory of mind and

  social withdrawal

  Socrates

  sodium ion channels

  Sokoloff, Louis

  Solomon, Andrew

  Soranus

  Spack, Norman

  spending, excessive

  sperm, in older fathers

  spinal cord; injuries

  spinocerebellar ataxia

  Squire, Larry

  SRY

  Stanford University

  State, Matthew

  Stefánsson, Kári

  Stevens, Beth

  Stice, Eric

  stimuli, responses to

  stomach, contraction of

  stress; addiction and; bipolar disorder and; depression and; hormones; PTSD

  striate cortex

  striatum

  stroke

  structural imaging

  Styron, William, Darkness Visible

  subjectivity

  subliminal perception

  substance abuse

  substantia nigra

  subthalamic nucleus

  suicide; depression and; gender and

  Sultzer, David

  superego

  superior temporal sulcus

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  surprise

  Surrealism

  “Surrealism and Madness” (exhibition)

  Swaab, Dick

  sweating

  switch dilemma

  synapses; dysfunction of; memory and

  synaptic cleft

  synaptic pruning; excessive; insufficient

  syphilis

  System 1 mode of thinking

  System 2 mode of thinking

  target cells

  taste

  tau protein

  Temkin, Ann

  Temple of Apollo, Delphi

  temporal lobe; memory and; removal; stimulation points on

  temporal-parietal junction

  terrorism

  testes

  testosterone

  thalamus

  Thanatos

  theory of mind

  Thorazine

  thymine

  touch

  transference

  transgender people; children and adolescents

  transgenes

  Treffert, Darold

  Tretiakoff, Konstantin

  trolley problem

  Tversky, Amos

  twelve-step programs

  22q11 deletion syndrome

  twins; autism in; bipolar disorder in; fraternal; identical; psychiatric disorders in; schizophrenia in

  UCLA

  unconscious; adaptive; biology of; boundaries between consciousness and; decision making; emotion; fear; Freudian view of; moral decisions and; mystery of; perception and; preconscious; psychotic art and

  unemployment

  unipolar depression

  unity of experience

  University College London

  University of California, Berkeley

  University of California, Davis

  University of California, San Diego

  University of California, San Francisco

  University of Cambridge

  University of East Anglia

  University of Edinburgh

  University of Göteborg

  University of Heidelberg

  University of Iowa

  University of Manchester

  University of Munich

  University of New Mexico

  University of Pennsylvania

  University of Pittsburgh

  University of Prague

  University of Southern California

  University of Sydney

  University of Texas

  University of Toronto

  University of Vienna

  Univers
ity of Washington

  University of Wisconsin

  van Gogh, Vincent

  vasopressin

  ventral tegmental area

  ventromedial prefrontal cortex

  Vienna

  Vienna School of Art History

  Vienna School of Medicine

  Vietnam War

  violence

  virtual reality exposure therapy

  vision; autism and; consciousness and

  visual cortex

  voles

  Volkow, Nora

  von Economo, Constantin

  Wain, Louis; drawings of cats

  wakefulness, biology of

  walking

  war veterans; addiction and; PTSD in

  Washington University in St. Louis

  Weill Cornell Medical Center

  Weldon, L. D.

  Wernicke, Carl

  Wernicke’s area

  Wexler, Milton

  Wigström, Holger

  will

  Williams syndrome

  Wilmanns, Karl

  Wilson, Brian

  Wilson, E. O.

  Wilson, Timothy

  Wiltshire, Stephen

  Wimmer, Elliott

  wisdom

  Woodruff, Guy

  Woolf, Virginia

  working memory

  World War I

  World War II

  worms

  worthlessness

  Wundt, Wilhelm

  X-rays

  Yale University

  Zurich

  PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:

  Excerpts from Madness and Memory, copyright © 2014 by Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

  Excerpts from The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights, copyright © 2005, 2006 by Deborah Rudacille. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  Excerpts from “The Best Way I Can Describe What It’s Like to Have Autism,” reprinted by permission of Eric McKinney.

  Excerpts from Depression, Too, Is a Thing with Feathers, copyright © 2008 by Andrew Solomon; reprinted by permission of Routledge Publishing, a division of Taylor & Francis Group.

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Unless otherwise indicated, most illustrations were created or adapted by Sarah Mack or are in the public domain.

  Brain illustrations were created by Terese Winslow.

  Photograph of Golgi stain. Picture by Bob Jacobs.

  Photograph of Uta Frith. Used with permission.

  Diagram of eye movement patterns. Used with permission from Springer; courtesy of Kevin A. Pelphrey.

  Diagram of theory of mind. Used with permission from Elsevier Books.

  Diagram of single-nucleotide variation and diagram of copy number variations. Courtesy of Chris Willcox.

  Photograph of child with Williams syndrome. Courtesy of Terry Monkaba.

  Photograph of child with autism. Courtesy of Ursa Hoogle.

  Photograph of Andrew Solomon. Used with permission from Andrew Solomon; courtesy of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

  Photograph of Kay Redfield Jamison. Used with permission.

  Photograph of Elyn Saks. Courtesy of USC Gould School of Law.

  Photograph of H.M.’s brain and an intact brain. Courtesy of Press et al.

  Photograph of an amyloid plaque and a neurofibrillary tangle in the brain. Picture by Nigel Cairns.

  Diagram of amyloid plaque creation. Courtesy of Chris Willcox.

  Diagram of tau protein misfolding. Courtesy of Chris Willcox.

  Big Self-Portrait © Chuck Close; courtesy of Pace Gallery.

  Roy II © Chuck Close; courtesy of Pace Gallery.

  Detail of Roy II © Chuck Close; courtesy of Pace Gallery.

  The Flamingoes by Henri Rousseau. Used with permission from Dennis Hallinan / Alamy Stock Photo.

  Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand by Salvador Dalí. Used with permission from Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS).

  The brain of the fruit fly. Used with permission from Columbia University; courtesy of Pavan K. Auluck, H. Y. Edwin Chan, John Q. Trojanowski, Virginia M. Y. Lee, and Nancy M. Bonini.

  Diagram of the valence of emotion. Courtesy of Paul Ekman.

  Photograph of marine. Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives.

  Diagram reconstructing the iron bar’s pathway through Gage’s brain. Adapted, with permission, from H. Damasio et al. 1994.

  Diagram of the trolley problem. Courtesy of Luigi Corvaglia.

  Diagram of the brain’s normal reward circuitry disrupted by addiction. Courtesy of Eric Nestler.

  Photograph of Ben Barres. Used with permission.

  ALSO BY ERIC R. KANDEL

  Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures

  The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

  In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

  Principles of Neural Science (coauthor)

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Eric R. Kandel is a University Professor and the Fred Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory, he is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which won the Bruno Kreisky Award in Literature, Austria’s highest literary prize; and Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, a book about the New York School of abstract art. He is also the coauthor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Introduction

    1.  What Brain Disorders Can Tell Us About Ourselves

    2.  Our Intensely Social Nature: The Autism Spectrum

    3.  Emotions and the Integrity of the Self: Depression and Bipolar Disorder

    4.  The Ability to Think and to Make and Carry Out Decisions: Schizophrenia

    5.  Memory, the Storehouse of the Self: Dementia

    6.  Our Innate Creativity: Brain Disorders and Art

    7.  Movement: Parkinson’s and Huntington’s Diseases

    8.  The Interplay of Conscious and Unconscious Emotion: Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Faulty Decision Making

    9.  The Pleasure Principle and Freedom of Choice: Addictions

  10.  Sexual Differentiation of the Brain and Gender Identity

  11.  Consciousness: The Great Remaining Mystery of the Brain

  Conclusion: Coming Full Circle

  Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Index

  Permissions Acknowledgments

  Illustration Credits

  Also by Eric R. Kandel

  A Note About the Author

  Copyright

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