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Nobel-Prize-Winning neuroscientist Professor Eric Kandel goes back to Vienna in 1900 to chart the beginning of a revolution in our understanding of how we think about the human mind – our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions – and how our mind and brain relate to art. Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe in 1900 and leading artists and scientists – Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele – were swapping ideas that led to breakthroughs in psychology, brain science, literature and art. Kandel looks at the rich cultural life of Vienna, the ideas and advances that were made and the enduring influence they have today.

Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on memory storage in the brain, was born in Vienna. He is a professor at Columbia University, USA, a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a founding director of the Centre for Neurobiology and Behaviour at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He is author of a memoir, In Search of Memory, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Award.