text book

[lee]

I am interested in gaining an outsider/amateur's background in the 
fundamentals of neuroscience.  I have an interest in various topics, and 
spend time at the local medical library trying to read research papers, 
but I need  a better basic background to understand what I read.  Can anyone
recommend a basic text on introductory neuroscience?  I am looking for 
something that doesn't shy away from detail, but which doesn't doom a 
non-chemist / physiologist type either.

Thanks.

Lee (lee at xmission.com)