"in dr. eric kandel’s words – "i entered medical school in the fall of 1952, dedicated to becoming a psychoanalyst. while in medical school i loved the clinical work but had no particular interest in basic science. in my senior year, however, i decided that perhaps even a new york psychoanalyst should know something about the brain, so i took an elective at columbia university with the neurophysiologist harry grundfest." in the aftermath of this statement, what is the most relevant statement that describes dr. kandel’s sentiments about his discovery of memory traces at the biochemical level? "