Posts by Former NIMH Director Thomas Insel about Clinical Research and Trials
- New hope for treating psychosis
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Results from a major NIMH project provide evidence that coordinated specialty care can improve outcomes for first episode psychosis. Dr. Insel blogs about the RAISE project and other recent studies of coordinated care.
- Look who is getting into mental health research
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Tech companies are bringing their ability to extract knowledge from data to health care. Dr. Insel gives some examples that show the potential of new tech-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.
- August at NIMH
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Despite its reputation as a month for slowing down, August is busy at NIMH as the end of the fiscal year approaches. Dr. Insel takes time out to give an update on NIMH-supported clinical trials. - Something Interesting is Happening
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Dr. Insel discusses how the Precision Medicine Initiative will create a new kind of patient-driven research, which is similar to how innovative companies have created a new share economy based on trust.
- Lost in Translation
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Drug testing in mice has been a poor guide to effectiveness in humans; Dr. Insel talks about the need for research approaches that can more reliably guide medication development.
- From My Data to Mined Data
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Dr. Insel discusses the importance of data sharing within the scientific community and highlights how NIMH is encouraging this process.
- Clues to Risk and Resilience: Army STARRS
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Dr. Insel talks about just published findings coming out of Army STARRS, a joint Army-NIMH effort to understand risk factors for suicide in the military.
- A New Approach to Clinical Trials
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NIMH is changing how it will support clinical trials. Dr. Insel summarizes the changes and the reasons behind them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experimental Medicine
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Dr. Insel discusses the crisis of medication development for mental disorders.
- 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.
- 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.
- Treatment Development: Where do we go from here?
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Dr. Insel discusses opportunities for treatment development.
- NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2011
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Dr. Insel shares NIMH’s Top 10 Research Advances for 2011.
- Treatment Development: Where do we go from here?
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Dr. Insel discusses opportunities for treatment development.
- 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
- Antidepressants: A complicated picture
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Dr. Insel discusses the complicated nature of research on the efficacy antidepressants.
- 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.
- Making the Most of our Interventions Research
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Dr. Insel provides a vision for future clinical research.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.