Add to playlistOn their 50th wedding anniversary, neuroscientist Eric Kandel and his wife revisit places tied to their experiences during the Holocaust.
New York Times Review (A.O. Scott, Jan 2010)
It’s not often that you are invited to spend an hour or two in the presence of a Nobel Prize winner, and “In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel,” Petra Seeger’s new documentary, offers an especially gratifying opportunity. The film’s subject won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into the workings of the brain. He is particularly interested in how, at the cellular level, the mind stores and sorts various stimuli and turns them into long- and short-term memory.
