Posts about Medications

Experimental Medicine

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

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Balancing Immediate Needs with Future Innovation

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Dr. Insel responds to discussion from the National Advisory Mental Health Council concerning the need to balance research funding for basic science and mental health services.

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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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NIMH’s Top 10 Research Events and Advances of 2010

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10 breakthroughs and events of 2010 which are changing the way we approach mental disorders.

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Wanted: A Few Good Assays

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NIMH/NIH is nurturing medications development via assays that probe new molecular targets relevant to mental disorders.

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