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The Disordered Mind

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What’s it about?

Nobel laureate Eric Kandel explores how mental disorders reveal the brain's inner workings, showing that conditions like schizophrenia, depression, and Alzheimer's are brain circuit disorders—and that understanding them offers hope for healing.

You’ll learn

  • All mental disorders are brain disorders
  • Depression shrinks the hippocampus
  • Schizophrenia involves dopamine imbalance
  • Neuroplasticity enables recovery