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Thomas R. Insel Quotes

American - Scientist | October 19, 1951 -

From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

Thomas R. Insel

Technology Innovation Health Game

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

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Unknown Studying Schizophrenia Cause

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

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Brain Direction End Connections Know

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

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Health Doctor Medicine Country Going

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 clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.

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Future Humility Brain Think Enough

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

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Medicine Early Intervention Stories

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Research Think Autism Agency Funding

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, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

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Business Health Practice Medicine

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 engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances.

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Future Great Research Engineering

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, there are few options.

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Medical Serious Sometimes Hospital

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

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History Better Long Ask Need May

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

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Brain Talk Anything About Simplistic

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