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Bliss book wins publishing prize
12 February 2008
Tim Bliss joined the staff of NIMR in 1968, later becoming head of the Division of Neurophysiology until his retirement in 2006. In collaboration with Terje Lømo he published the first detailed account of long-term potentiation (LTP) in 1973, and research into the mechanisms and function of LTP remained at the heart of his research activities.
The Hippocampus book, edited jointly by Tim Bliss and four other eminent neuroscientists, was published in 2007 and has been widely praised as "a masterly achievement", "a work of deep scholarship" and "a comprehensive and authoritative textbook by world-renowned researchers on the hippocampus".
The PSP Awards for Excellence aims to reward the very best in professional and scholarly publishing, representing distinguished works in over 30 disciplines. The awards are made by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers present. Each year, publishers and authors are recognized for their commitment to pioneering works of research and for contributing to works of scholarship. The Hippocampus Book won the award for best book in the category of Biomedicine and Neuroscience.
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