There is nowadays a trend in the training of doctors to integrate basic science with medicine in a bid to make more sense of the biology one learns as a medical student. Furthermore in the long term it is hoped that as a result medical practitioners will seek a more scientific basis to their art, even if the current funding bodies and training schemes are not always especially encouraging in this respect. It is in this context that Delcomyn finds his book on the “Foundations of Neurobiology”, a book that has clearly come from …