Click Here to Read:   Turning Doctors into Leaders by Thomas H. Lee on Harvard Business Review website in the April 2010 edition. 

Artwork: David Maisel, History’s Shadow GM8, 2010, Archival pigment print, 40″ x 30″

Click Here to Read: Drugs for Children May Silence Stories by Claudia Gold on the Child in Mind Website on March 24, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  The grand challenge of consciousness by Anil K. Seth on the Frontiers in Consciousness Research website.

Science 19 March 2010:
Vol. 327. no. 5972, p. 1437
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Beyond DSM: Seeking a Brain-Based Classification of Mental Illness
Greg Miller

If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
—Hippocrates, Aphorisms, 400 B.C.E.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, mental disorders have been classified according to their outward signs. But even in Hippocrates’ day, attention was paid to the underlying causes. The word “melancholy” derives from the Greek word for black bile, an excess of which was thought to cause prolonged sadness. Continue reading Beyond DSM: Seeking a Brain-Based Classification of Mental Illness

Click Here to Read:  Can You Alter Your Memory? Doctors Try New Therapy for Phobias; Taking the Sting Out Of Childhood Upsets by Shirley S. Wang in the Wall Street Journal on March 15, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  X-Cloned Brains: Is this the secret of fathers and daughters? by Christopher Badcock on the Imprinted Brain blog on the Psychology Today website on March 5. 2010.

Christopher Badcock

Click Here to Read:  Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force by Nicholas Wade in the New York Times on March 1, 2010.

Genes enabling lactose tolerance, which probably resulted in more surviving offspring, were detected in cultures like this Kenyan shepherd’s.

Click Here to Read:  Depression’s Upside by Jonah Lehrer in the New York Times on February 26, 2010.