NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTHNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director Thomas Insel is stepping down to join Google Life Sciences in developing technologies for spotting and treating mental illnesses.
“The idea is to use the power of data analytics to make behavioral studies much more objective than they have been before,” Insel told The New York Times.
Insel, who previously conducted research on the neuroscience of social bonding, has led the NIMH for 13 years. During his tenure at the institute, Insel helped establish the Psychiatrics Genomics Consortium, a Research Domain Criteria project to organize mental health research, and other programs.
“Tom’s leaving is a great loss for all of us,” E. Fuller Torrey, the executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, told the New York Times. “He refocused N.I.M.H. on its primary mission—research on the causes and better treatments for individuals with serious mental illness.”
National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins ...
