Sliding Scales and Brain Drain

• Nearly a quarter of people diagnosed with major depression may instead be dealing normally with a difficult event, like job loss, divorce or a natural disaster, for which current diagnostic tests don't account, a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry says.

• Spain’s University of the Basque Country plans to create a “bank” of brains donated by psychiatric patients so it can study the origin of mental disorders and develop treatments, a Basque news agency reports.