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The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

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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.

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For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder?

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My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.

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After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

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A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances.

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Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

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I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

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We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

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When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: October 19th, 1951

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