Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Insel’
Mindstrong Health raises $100M to transform how we measure and promote mental health
Mindstrong scores $100M to monitor wellness via smartphone behaviors (MobiHealth News): This morning digital mental health platform Mindstrong scored a whopping $100 million in Series C funding. While Mindstrong has a history of solid funding rounds, this amount will more than double its total funding. In 2017 it got its first $14 million cash infusion.…
Read MoreGoogle gets serious about brain & mental health innovation and hires NIMH Director Tom Insel
. NIH Director’s Statement Regarding Dr. Thomas Insel’s Departure: “After serving 13 years as Director for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Thomas R. Insel, M.D., will step down effective November 1, 2015…he is definitely not retiring. He is planning to join the Google Life Sciences
Read MoreA Call to Action: Improving brain & mental health via digital platforms, neuroplasticity research and the White House BRAIN initiative
A Call to Action: Improving brain & mental health via digital platforms, neuroplasticity research and the White House BRAIN initiative from SharpBrains: Tracking Brain Health Innovation Session held at the 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit, featuring: Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Dr. Adam Gazzaley, Director of UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center and…
Read MoreNew Summit Speakers: Thomas Insel (NIMH), Catherine Madison (CPMC), Rajiv Pant (NYT), and Mark Baxter (Rosetta Stone)
We are proud to announce four excellent additions to the quite stellar Speaker roster at the upcoming 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (October 28–30th): Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute for Mental Health, will share his vision for a better brain health & mental health system, and issue a call to action and innovation to get there Dr. Catherine…
Read MoreDr. Thomas Insel, NIMH Director, to speak @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
We are proud to share that Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and neurotechnology visionary, will open the 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit on Tuesday, October 28th. Prior to this appointment at NIMH, Dr. Insel was Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, where he was founding director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. He…
Read MoreGood profile of pioneer Dr. Thomas Insel, NIMH Director
Blazing Trails in Brain Science (The New York Times): “The pendulum has swung so far toward drug therapy in recent years that it is hard to recapture how disruptive those 1980 studies were. Dr. Insel’s work and that of many others, testing the effect of new medications, would turn the field away from long-term talking cures…
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