Demystifying Medicine — Thomas Insel and George Koob discuss mental health and alcohol use

Dr. Insel, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is a national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology. He served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015. Upon leaving the NIH, Insel co-founded Mindstrong Health, a start-up assisting people with serious mental illness; served as a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom; co-founded Humanest Care, a therapeutic online community for recovery; and in 2022, joined Vanna Health as a co-founder and executive chair. Dr. Koob, an internationally recognized expert on alcohol and stress and the neurobiology of alcohol and drug addiction, has served as director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism since 2014. His NIH research, conducted in the NIDA intramural research program, explores the neurobiological bases for altered motivational states associated with substance addiction at the neurocircuitry, cellular, and molecular level; and he uses these studies as a heuristic approach for the study of emotions. For this Demystifying Medicine course, Insel and Koob will discuss concepts such as lagging treatment advances for " serious mental illness " — for example, for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe mood and anxiety disorders — and " hyperkatifeia, " a hyper-sensitivity to emotional distress that may lead to substance abuse or relapse of substance use. The Demystifying Medicine Series, jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, includes presentations on ...
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