TY - JOUR T1 - Floyd Bloom Discusses the Messengers of the Mind JF - eneuro JO - eneuro DO - 10.1523/ENEURO.0076-14.2014 SP - ENEURO.0076-14.2014 AU - Teresa Esch Y1 - 2014/12/31 UR - http://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2014/12/31/ENEURO.0076-14.2014.abstract N2 - Significance statement: Some of the basic principles of nervous system function that we now take for granted were once topics of great controversy that required decades of research to resolve. One such principle is that neurons communicate via chemicals. In the History of Neuroscience lecture at this year’s meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Floyd Bloom discussed how this principle came to be accepted by the community. In doing so, he hoped to recognize some of the great minds who contributed to the debate and also to remind young scientists that even great minds can sometimes be wrong. This commentary presents some of the key discoveries highlighted in his talk. ER -