Posts about Clinical Research and Trials

Network Solutions

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

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From Practice to Research

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

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A Promising Behavioral Treatment for Tourette Syndrome

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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

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

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Citizen Science

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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)

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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?

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Dr. Insel discusses opportunities for treatment development.

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NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2011

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Dr. Insel shares NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances for 2011.

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Treatment Development: Where do we go from here?

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Dr. Insel discusses opportunities for treatment development.

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Treatment Development: The Past 50 Years

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

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Antidepressants: A complicated picture

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

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Neuroscience Advances Showcased in Washington

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

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Making the Most of our Interventions Research

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Dr. Insel provides a vision for future clinical research.

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Taking Clinical Research to the Next Level

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

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Microbes and Mental Illness

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

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Three Principles for Clinical Research

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

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