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KEY FEATURES: A student-friendly writing style makes the content more approachable for readers to retain. Personal stories from fellows of the Association of Psychological Science (APS) convey to readers that even the most distinguished experts make mistakes that can be avoided through examination. Critical thinking questions give students the opportunity to reflect on preceding essays. Stories from all areas of psychology appeal to learners beyond subfields of psychology.
Death Is not the Answer
Death Is not the Answer
When I was in graduate school, in the soon-to-be-renamed psychology department at MIT, a graduate student senior to me, Doug Frost, was trying to visualize the first outreach of axons in the developing visual system, and he was suffering. At that time, the only high-definition way to trace axons used a technique developed by MIT’s Walle Nauta, exploiting an unusual affinity of dying axons for silver molecules. If an axon tract was cut, Nauta’s method could show where those degenerating axons connected. Doug, who could be found draped over his microscope any hour of day or night, was trying to modify this technique for the developing brain. He complained bitterly that the ...
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