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  • 2004 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Thomas R. Insel is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on digital mental health interventions, treatment of major depression, electroconvulsive therapy studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, mental health treatment and access, and other mental health research topics.

Recent publications by Thomas R. Insel include:

  • "Digital mental health care: five lessons from Act 1 and a preview of Acts 2-5," 2023, published in npj Digital Medicine
  • "Mental health care 2.0," 2022, published in Science

Other notable papers related to their areas of work, though authored by different researchers, include:

  • "The prescriber's guide to classic MAO inhibitors (phenelzine, tranylcypromine, isocarboxazid) for treatment-resistant depression," 2022, CNS Spectrums
  • "Can Mental Health Care Become More Human by Becoming More Digital?," 2023, Daedalus
  • "Correction: The AURORA Study: a longitudinal, multimodal library of brain biology and function after traumatic stress exposure," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

Thomas R. Insel's frequent co-authors include:

  • Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy
  • Samuel A. McLean
  • Karestan C. Koenen
  • Thomas C. Neylan
  • Laura Germine

Their work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • CNS Spectrums
  • UNC Libraries
  • npj Digital Medicine
  • Daedalus
  • Science

The areas of study associated with Thomas R. Insel's publications include:

  • Applied Psychology
  • Pharmacology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Social Psychology

Thomas R. Insel has been recognized with awards such as the W. Alden Spencer Award from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2004 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Best Publications

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • Research domain criteria (RDoC): toward a new classification framework for research on mental disorders

    Thomas R Insel;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Marjorie A. Garvey;Robert K. Heinssen

  • Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC

    Bruce N Cuthbert;Thomas R Insel

  • Grand challenges in global mental health

    Pamela Y. Collins;Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Sarah S. Joestl;Dana March;Dana March

  • The neurobiology of attachment

    Thomas R. Insel;Larry J. Young

  • The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project: Precision Medicine for Psychiatry

    Thomas R. Insel

  • The Challenge of Translation in Social Neuroscience: A Review of Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Affiliative Behavior

    Thomas R. Insel

  • Why has it taken so long for biological psychiatry to develop clinical tests and what to do about it

    S Kapur;A G Phillips;T R Insel

  • Social amnesia in mice lacking the oxytocin gene.

    Jennifer N. Ferguson;Larry J. Young;Elizabeth F. Hearn;Martin M. Matzuk

  • Oxytocin in the Medial Amygdala is Essential for Social Recognition in the Mouse

    Jennifer N. Ferguson;J. Matthew Aldag;Thomas R. Insel;Larry J. Young

  • A role for central vasopressin in pair bonding in monogamous prairie voles

    J T Winslow;N Hastings;C S Carter;C R Harbaugh

  • Oxytocin receptor distribution reflects social organization in monogamous and polygamous voles.

    Thomas R. Insel;Lawrence E. Shapiro

  • Early Life Programming and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Tracy L. Bale;Tallie Z. Baram;Alan S. Brown;Jill M. Goldstein

  • Brain disorders? Precisely

    Thomas R. Insel;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior

    Michael Numan;Thomas R. Insel

  • Oxytocin is required for nursing but is not essential for parturition or reproductive behavior

    Katsuhiko Nishimori;Larry J. Young;Qiuxia Guo;Zuoxin Wang

  • HOW THE BRAIN PROCESSES SOCIAL INFORMATION: Searching for the Social Brain*

    Thomas R. Insel;Russell D. Fernald

  • The knockout mouse project

    Christopher P. Austin;James F. Battey;Allan Bradley;Maja Bucan

  • Digital Phenotyping: Technology for a New Science of Behavior.

    Thomas R. Insel

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young Emory University
Zuoxin Wang
Zuoxin Wang Florida State University
Dennis L. Murphy
Dennis L. Murphy National Institutes of Health
Larry J. Siever
Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruce N. Cuthbert
Bruce N. Cuthbert National Institutes of Health
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Phil Skolnick
Phil Skolnick Opiant Pharmaceuticals
Story C. Landis
Story C. Landis National Institutes of Health
Philip S. Wang
Philip S. Wang Harvard Medical School
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health

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