Thomas R. Insel quotes

“With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.”
-- Thomas R. Insel

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“From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.”
-- Thomas R. Insel

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“The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.”
-- Thomas R. Insel

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“The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.”
-- Thomas R. Insel

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“As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.”
-- Thomas R. Insel

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“Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as ***** or crack cocaine...”

“This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.”

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.”

“You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.”

“I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.”

“There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.”

“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”