Thomas R. Insel Quotes

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• I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.
• We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.
• When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.
• The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.
• In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums,…
• Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds,…
• As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.
• What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or lack…
• 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…
• A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and…
• With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in…
• From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.
• Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine,…
• We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain.…
• Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists…
• Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain…
• After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.
• I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory…

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