Stories by Thomas R. Insel

Thomas R. Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015. He is an adviser to Compass Pathways, as well as to several digital mental health companies, and author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (Penguin, 2022).

Mental Health

A Renaissance for Psychedelics Could Fill a Long-Standing Treatment Gap for Psychiatric Disorders

Psilocybin and MDMA represent a first wave of therapies that help patients by changing the way they view reality

September 14, 2021 — Danielle Schlosser and Thomas R. Insel | Opinion

Mental Health

Is There a Better Way to Diagnose Psychosis?

A new study opens a door to more biologically based categories of major mental illness

February 22, 2016 — Thomas R. Insel

Mind & Brain

Rethinking How We Diagnose Psychosis

A new study opens a door to more biologically based categories of major mental illness

December 15, 2015 — Thomas R. Insel

Mind & Brain

Faulty Circuits

Neuroscience is revealing the malfunctioning connections underlying psychological disorders and forcing psychiatrists to rethink the causes of mental illness

April 5, 2010 — Thomas R. Insel