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Which book?

Would you recommend it?

Principles of Neural Science 5th ed. By Kandel et al. It was recommended to me here on HN.

The thing is a serious tome. When I want to work through a chapter I have to make time every day for a week and keep notes. In any case it has a lot of technical detail which is specifically what I was looking for.

Hmm, 1981. Neuroscience has evolved considerably over the last 35 years. Is it still worth reading it now, over more modern texts?

Most recent edition was published in 2012. It's extensively updated between editions, so very much worth reading if you are seriously interested in neuroscience.

Thank you, I will give it a look.

If you have some prior knowledge of neuroscience you can give it a cursory read in a day or so.

You probably do yourself a greater favor reading it and overwriting fragments of knowledge later, than you would by not reading the whole textbook at all.

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