Psychology, Mind & Neuroscience Roundup for Monday

• Phil Dawdy discusses an article published by MSN on the wildly varying responses to antidepressant medications.

• A new study challenges the popular assumption that it is always therapeutically beneficial to express one's feelings after a collective trauma.

• And, for those worried about collective psychic trauma, Radley Balko writes about the most disturbing communtity safety program ever devised.

• Do Chimpanzees have a theory of mind?  Derek Bownds posts excerpts from a Call and Tomasello article in Trends in Cognitive Science (subscription required).  Bownds includes the description of a fascinating experiment showing that chimps infer intentions.

• Michael Merzenich offers some provocative observations about neuroscience and neuroscientists from a conference he's attending in Crete.

• Jonah Lehrer discusses the paucity of research support for the notion of birth order effects along with his nagging suspicion that birth order somehow matters.