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Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:
Any inquiry into the history of psychology has to include Emil Kraepelin and his description of dementia praecox. Learn more about it here, at World of Psychology.
At the Scientific American Observations blog, Daisy Yuhas has a great explainer on how fMRI works.
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