Schizophrenia as a Health Disparity
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Dr. Insel blogs about what epidemiological research in Sweden tells us about premature mortality experienced by people with serious mental illness and what we need to do to change that.
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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.
The Beginning of History Illusion
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Dr. Insel reflects on the state of mental health care and research 50 years after President Kennedy’s special message to congress on mental health.
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.
NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2011
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Dr. Insel shares NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances for 2011.
Improving Diagnosis Through Precision Medicine
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Dr. Insel describes how precision medicine may put us on the path to better diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
A New Picture of Brain Development
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Two papers published this week in Nature provide the first maps of the molecular development of the human brain. Mapping brain development by changes in gene expression gives us a new level of precision and raises new possibilities for understanding the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Help Wanted: Making Workplaces Work in Mental Health Care
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Dr. Insel discusses World Mental Health Day and a new approach to meeting the shortage of mental health providers.
No Health Without Mental Health
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Dr. Insel discusses the implications of comorbidity among people with serious mental illness.
Psychiatry: Where are we going?
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Dr. Insel discusses the promising future of psychiatry as it integrates new approaches discovered through neuroscience.
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.
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.