Science reads: 'Do Our Bones Influence Our Minds?'

In the New Yorker, Amanda Schaffer writes about new research that could change how we view the human skeleton: not just structural support and a repository for calcium and phosphate, but part of us that "issues commands to far-flung cells," possibly directly to the brain. "This is a biggie," said Eric Kandel, the neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate. "Who thinks of the bone as being an endocrine organ? You think of the adrenal gland, you think of the pituitary, you don't think of bone."