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Science, Art and 'The Age of Insight'

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Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel joins us to discuss his latest book, “The Age of Insight.” It’s about the extraordinary period during the early 1900s in Vienna when pioneers in art and science began to explore the new territory of the unconscious mind.

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Eric Kandel, neuroscientist, Nobel laureate and author most recently of "The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, From Vienna 1900 to the Present"

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