At a conference held earlier this month at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, psychiatrists David Lovas and Zev Schuman-Olivier made the case for and against mindfulness and psychiatric drugs in treating patients with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other mental illnesses. Schuman-Olivier is a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance.
Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, wrote an opinion piece about his research group and their work on sequencing the genome of a Neanderthal. Research by George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, is cited.
