Director’s Posts about Clinical Research and Trials

Network Solutions

By Thomas Insel on February 05, 2013

Dr. Insel talks about how NIMH’s RAISE study is exploring an integrated, multi-component approach to health care for schizophrenia.

From Practice to Research

By Thomas Insel on November 15, 2012

Dr. Insel introduces an innovative approach that one group is taking to speed up the dissemination of research results into clinical practice.

A Promising Behavioral Treatment for Tourette Syndrome

By Thomas Insel on August 06, 2012

Dr. Insel describes a new behavioral treatment for a neurologically based disorder that has traditionally been difficult to treat. 

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Experimental Medicine

By Thomas Insel on June 12, 2012

Dr. Insel discusses the crisis of medication development for mental disorders.

Citizen Science

By Thomas Insel on April 26, 2012

Presentations at a recent meeting in San Diego showed how new technologies are being used to change the culture of science, empowering patients, and fueling innovative research approaches.

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The Future of Psychiatry (= Clinical Neuroscience)

By Thomas Insel on April 20, 2012

While fewer medical students are choosing psychiatry in the U.K., in the U.S. psychiatry is attracting increasing numbers of elite MD-PhD students who want to do research. These young scientists are committed to developing a new scientific basis for clinical care.

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Treatment Development: Where do we go from here?

By Thomas Insel on January 05, 2012

Dr. Insel discusses opportunities for treatment development.

NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2011

By Thomas Insel on December 23, 2011

Treatment Development: Where do we go from here?

By Thomas Insel on December 22, 2011

Dr. Insel discusses opportunities for treatment development.

Treatment Development: The Past 50 Years

By Thomas Insel on December 14, 2011

Dr. Insel discusses the state of psychiatric research and development (R&D) in the public and private sectors

Antidepressants: A complicated picture

By Thomas Insel on December 06, 2011

Dr. Insel discusses the complicated nature of research on the efficacy antidepressants.

Neuroscience Advances Showcased in Washington

By Thomas Insel on November 18, 2011

Dr. Insel reflects on an exciting neuroscience conference where an increasing interest in neuropsychiatric disorders was evident.

Making the Most of our Interventions Research

By Thomas Insel on May 20, 2011

Dr. Insel provides a vision for future clinical research.

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Taking Clinical Research to the Next Level

By Thomas Insel on August 30, 2010

Dr. Insel discusses the evolution of clinical research and changing priorities in clinical research funding.

Microbes and Mental Illness

By Thomas Insel on August 13, 2010

Increasing evidence linking strep infection to OCD in children suggests that microbiomics may prove an important research area for understanding and treating mental disorders.

Three Principles for Clinical Research

By Thomas Insel on July 30, 2010

Dr. insel discusses two important initiatives that will have a broad impact on NIMH’s clinical research portfolio.

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