Opportunities before You

Whisper before you go.

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Read Before You Cite!

Many psychological tests have the so-called “lie-scale.” A small but sufficient number of questions that admit only one true answer, such as: “Do you always reply to letters immediately after reading them?” are inserted among others that are central to the particular test. A wrong reply for such a question adds a point on the lie-scale, and when the lie-score is high, the over-all test results ...

Look Before You Reach!

This issue of Neuron contains an elegant neuroimaging study by Prado and colleagues, who report that the network of brain areas involved in visually guided reaching is modulated by whether targets are presented in central or peripheral vision. These results clarify prior inconsistencies in the literature regarding reach-related activation in the human brain, and they are valuable in interpretin...

Look before you leap.

The decision to leave a job can be very stressful. Multiple variables must be considered before turning in your notice. The goal of this paper is to help you decide if changing jobs is a smart decision, and, if it is, when to do it.

Look before you leap.