显微镜下神经细胞的魅影.doc

You Wish Your Neurons Were This Pretty BY?HYPERLINK /wiredscience/author/greglm/ GREG MILLER  When?HYPERLINK / \t _blank Greg Dunn?finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn in 2011, he bought himself a sensory deprivation tank as a graduation present. The gift marked a major life transition, from the world of science to a life of meditation and art. Now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia,?Dunn says he was inspired in his grad-student days by the spare beauty of neurons treated with certain stains. The Golgi stain, for example, will turn one or two neurons black against a golden backgr