ABSTRACT
When I first went to do psychopharmacology research with Brian Leonard in Galway in 1980, pretty well the first thing he did was to give me a copy of your book The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology (Cooper, et al., 1970) and said ‘read this – this is all you need to know’. More recently, looking through bookshelves, I’ve noticed your Brain, Mind and Behaviour (Bloom, et al., 1985) and been impressed by it. But the next encounter with you as it were was when you were invited to give the BAP guest lecture in 1987 (Bloom, 1987). The lecture included large amounts of neurophysiology, which I know nothing about, and dealt with alcoholism, which is not my area, but it still remains for me one of the best Guest Lectures I#x2019;ve ever heard in any forum – hence the interest for me to include you in this group of interviews; more than most people you seem aware of the need to reach out – to communicate to people outside your own area where things are at.
