Thomas Insel
Psychiatrist & Tech Entrepreneur | Transforming Mental Healthcare
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Dr. Thomas Insel is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and tech entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to transforming mental healthcare.
As the former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and co-founder of Mindstrong Health, he has pioneered new approaches to diagnosing and treating psychiatric disorders. Insel's keynotes blend his clinical expertise, research insights, and entrepreneurial experience, offering audiences a unique perspective on the future of mental health innovation.
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Toward a new understanding of mental illness
Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders."
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