There have been many interesting articles on the state of the American Catholic Church, but I found this essay by Dan Barry in the New York Times especially charming and intriguing, probably because I agree with so much of it. Get to the article by clicking here. Following are some sound bites. Let me say…

April 15 is a symbolic day for me because it was on this afternoon three years ago, I met Ann, my guardian angel on an Amtrak ride from New York to Baltimore. What a perfect day, then, to attend the Mood Disorders Research/Education Symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Just…

My absolute favorite essay on depression is a piece Kay Redfield Jamison wrote for NPR’s “This I Believe” collection of testimonies. It’s about learning to love our jagged edges. I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense…

In a recent medical newsletter, I came across this article on Project GenRED, a large NIH-sponsored effort to identify genes for recurring major depressive disease, which “operates on the premise that genes for early-striking disease are probably more obvious than later types.” This is all great news for me and many of you, because chronic…

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