Adolescent anger and aggression can be traced to differences in brain structure, scientists say. Variations in the sizes of parts of youths’ brains were found to be linked to different levels of aggression, belligerence and anxiety during discussions with their parents. [Telegraph]
Depression may seem like unrelieved misery to its sufferers, but the author of a controversial new book insists the condition is highly beneficial to the human species and can ultimately lead to great achievements. [Guardian]
In april of 1819, right around the time that he began to suffer the first symptoms of tuberculosis — the disease that had already killed his mother and his beloved brother, Tom — the poet John Keats sat down and wrote, in a letter to his brother, George, the following question: “Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?” Implied in this inquiry is an idea that is not very popular these days — at least not in the United States, which is characterized by an almost collective yearning for complete happiness. [LA Times]
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