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[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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