What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs. — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown. — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
