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

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Air date: Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 4:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views: Total views: 411 (222 Live, 189 On-demand)
Category: Demystifying Medicine
Runtime: 01:59:31
Description: 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 pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major disease problems and current research. Primarily directed toward PhD students, clinicians and program managers, this series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their application to major human diseases. Each session includes clinical and basic science components presented by NIH staff and invitees. All students, trainees, fellows, and staff are welcome to participate.

For more information go to https://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov
Author: Thomas Insel (Former NIMH Director) and George Koob (NIAAA Director)
 
CIT Live ID: 54041
Permanent link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54041

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