Good profile of pioneer Dr. Thomas Insel, NIMH Director

ThomasInselBlaz­ing 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 and increas­ing­ly toward med­ica­tion and short-term behav­ior ther­a­pies root­ed in the same kind of ran­dom­ized, con­trolled tri­als con­duct­ed in oth­er fields of medicine…Yet the over­all impact of this drug rev­o­lu­tion on pub­lic health has been mixed…”

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