Topic: Thomas Insel
Thomas Insel. . This month the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began putting into place the biggest reorganization of the sprawling $30.6...
Posted on 08/29/11 at 8:12am by Webmaster . International conference organized by F.E.A.S.T. will bring together parents and mental health experts...
Albert Einstein, a man who was often ambiguous about his religious views, once admitted that he rejected the God of his Jewish heritage for that of Spinoza, the 17th -century philosopher. For Spinoza, "God" was not a supernatural Being but an omnipresent ...
In 2008, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Thomas Insel warned that post war suicides may outnumber deaths from combat. Dr. Insel stated that "Post-traumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD, is the failure to cope after ...
When we engage in intimate social interactions, the "trust hormone" oxytocin likely plays a role-it is vital to building normal relationships. In a study published in February in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 13 high-functioning adults with autism ...
The next time you spot an old friend from across the room, thank oxytocin. Curious about other effects of oxytocin in people, psychologist Ulrike Rimmele of the University of Zurich in Switzerland and colleagues tested the hormone's role in social memory ...
Recently, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dr. Thomas Insel, weighed the evidence for a name change in his Director's Blog. It may be that the RDoC and other re-classification efforts, such as the proposed changes to ...
A National Institutes of Health institute director says on his blog that there was no " In 2009, after Nemeroff applied for a job at the University of Miami, Insel also said he spoke with the dean of the university's medical school ...
Charles Grassley has written a strongly worded letter to University of Miami President Donna Shalala saying he is "disturbed" and "troubled" by actions surrounding UM's hiring of a psychiatrist-researcher under investigation by a federal agency.. The letter from the Iowa Republican ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is again being blasted for how it's handling an uproar over investigator conflicts of interest (COI). Paul Basken of The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental ...