Care Quote by Thomas R. Insel

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

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

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

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

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

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

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

— Thomas R. Insel

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

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

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

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

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital…

— Thomas R. Insel