Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic: “‘The history of mental health is almost always told by psychiatrists and hardly ever by patients or through patients’ lives,’ said Darby Penney, ‘so this is pretty amazing.'” (New York Times)

“…Romney’s religion, and how he characterizes and explains it, has now become the central issue of his campaign. It may even be the issue that ends his candidacy — and some of that is no one’s fault but Mitt Romney’s. In transforming himself from a moderate, pro-choice Republican into an avid pro-life conservative, and in pandering to the party’s white Southern evangelical base — essentially presenting himself as a Christian fellow traveler with a few eccentric updates — Romney himself helped make an evangelical vetting of his faith inevitable.” (Salon)

NIH News Release: “‘Although the pheromones identified in this research are not produced by humans, the regions of the brain that are tied to behavior are the same for mice and people. Consequently, this research may one day contribute to our understanding of the neural pathways that play a role in human behavior,’ says James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIDCD. ‘Much is known about how pheromones work in the insect world, but we know very little about how these chemicals can influence behavior in mammals and other vertebrates.'”