Authors:Jack R. Cooper, Floyd E. Bloom, Robert H. Roth,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: neuropharmacology, basis, biochemical, cooper
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-10-17
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195140087
ISBN-13: 9780195140088

Aside from the usual updating of material, the major change in this edition is an extensive rewriting of the chapter on memory and learning to emphasize that genes that are involved in behavior are not immutable but their expression can be modified by transcription factors. Thus, with respect to learning, that old question about which is more important, nature or nuture, genetics or environment, should be answered with the question, which leg is more important for walking, the left leg or the right?

Authors:Floyd E. Bloom, M. Flint Beal, David J. Kupfer,
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: health, brain, guide, dana
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2002-12-24
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0743203976
ISBN-13: 9780743203975

Today, we know beyond any doubt that the brain plays a crucial role in our everyday health, and, indeed, makes us who we are. But the Internet, television, and newspapers abound in contradictory information about it, and, as a result, the insights we wish for and the medical choices we need to make are rarely as clear as they need to be -- especially when a family member’s well-being is at stake. For decades The Dana Foundation, a philanthropic organization founded in 1950 dedicated to science, health, and education, has focused its medical initiatives on brain research. The culmination

Authors:Larry R. Squire, Darwin Berg, Floyd Bloom, Sascha du
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: fundamental, neuroscience, squire, third
Number of Pages: 1280
Published: 2008-02-25
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0123740193
ISBN-13: 9780123740199

Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd Edition introduces graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to the full range of contemporary neuroscience. Addressing instructor and student feedback on the previous edition, all of the chapters are rewritten to make this book more concise and student-friendly than ever before. Each chapter is once again heavily illustrated and provides clinical boxes describing experiments, disorders, and methodological approaches and concepts. A companion web site contains test questions, and an imagebank of the figures for ready use in presentations, slides, and handout

Authors:Leslie Iversen, Susan Iversen, Floyd E. Bloom, Robert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: neuropsychopharmacology, introduction
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2008-12-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195380533
ISBN-13: 9780195380538

Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology expands on the molecular and cellular foundations of the classic Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology, Eighth Edition (Cooper, Bloom, and Roth) by now including the behavioral methods used to study psychoactive drugs in experimental animals and in humans. Authored by four founders of modern neuroscience, this concise and comprehensive text covers the current series of medications used to treat diseases of the brain and nervous system--both psychiatric and neurologic--as well as legal and illegal recreational drugs and the neuroscientific information th

Authors:Fanny Burney, Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, camilla
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 2009-07-26
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0199555745
ISBN-13: 9780199555741

First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. The path of true love, however, is strewn with intrigue, contretemps and misunderstanding. An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Fanny Burney weaves into her novel strands of light and dark, comic

Authors:Jeffrey Bloom, Carole Bloom, Steven Noble,
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Keywords: words, imaginary, bouquet, bloom
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1579124518
ISBN-13: 9781579124519

In Bloom’s Bouquet, words blossom. You know what a pigeon is, but what is a “pugeon”? An overweight bird, of course. Change one letter of “destination” and you get a place where dirt ends up: “dustination.” If you are late to ballet class, you are “leotardy.” The author of a horror film is a “scareenwriter.” The 599 new words in Bloom’s Bouquet are organized into such categories as “Plumpkins & Grimlets” (Food and Drink), “Froshbite & Frollicles” (Medicine), and “ Fiberals & Reapublicans (Politics). Fun to browse through and hilarious to share alo

Authors:O M, Jr. Brack, Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom, O.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Keywords: letters, piozzi
Number of Pages: 5
Published: 1999-05
List price: $69.50
ISBN-10: 0874133947
ISBN-13: 9780874133943

Mrs. Piozzi’s correspondence for the years 1811-1816 depicts a woman plagued by infirmity and financial difficulties. She also records the decline of her relationship with John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, her late husband’s nephew and her adopted son.