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Dopamine does not cause pleasure; it causes "wanting" and is critical to addiction and social attachments
The dopamine pathways critical to addiction and are also critical to certain social attachments (eg monogamy) And much of what we “want” may be outside…
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Wesley Zhao
December 2020
[Summary] A Solution-Focused Research Approach to Achieve an Implementable Revolution in Digital Mental Health (Mohr, Riper, Schueller 2017)
TLDR; Digital mental health tools are not working in the real-world mostly due to adherence. We need to rethink our approach and design tools patients…
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Wesley Zhao
November 2020
[Draft] Summary of Insel's Latest Papers
TLDR; We need to "close the gap" between mental health needs and what we can treat. To do this we need to focus on incorporating modern brain science…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Bending the Curve for Mental Health: Technology for a Public Health Approach (Insel 2019)
TLDR; Mental health is a public health problem and current institutions are not enough. Tech can "close the unconscionable gap between what we know and…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Building the Thermometer for Mental Health (Chauvin, Insel 2018)
TLDR; Early studies of monitoring smartphone data show capabilities in detecting depression, mania, PTSD, and other strong correlations with traditional…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Digital phenotyping: a global tool for psychiatry (Insel 2018)
TLDR; Digital phenotyping uses smart phone sensors and interactions to provide continuous, objective measurements of mental health for better diagnoses…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Digital Technologies in Psychiatry: Present and Future (Hirschtritt, Insel 2018)
TLDR; Tech has the ability to address 5 major issues: measurement, access, care delay, fragmented care, and stigma. Digital phenotyping and digital…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Preparing Physician-Scientists for an Evolving Research Ecosystem (Hirschtritt, Heaton, Insel 2018)
TLDR; Growing research opportunities funded by private companies can help physicians/scientists develop new diagnostics and therapeutics.
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Join the disruptors of health science (Insel 2018)
TLDR; We need deep partnerships between tech companies, clinicians, and researchers to bring product and data science expertise to the healthcare…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Digital Phenotyping: Technology for a New Science of Behavior (Insel 2017)
TLDR; In a field that hardly uses measurement; and where clinicians are too busy and patients are unmotivated; we need an objective, passive, ubiquitous…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Translating Oxytocin Neuroscience to the Clinic: A National Institute of Mental Health Perspective (Insel 2016)
TLDR; Although early human oxytocin studies are promising, we have to learn more about what oxytocin specifically targets in humans, and what doses are…
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Wesley Zhao
[Summary] Integrating neuroscience into psychiatric residency training (Insel 2015)
TLDR; Even though neuroscience is not fully actionable, psychiatry residents need to learn it because brain science will yield much more effective…
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Wesley Zhao
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