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...CURIOUS INCIDENCE Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which funds much of the nation's autism research, remembers a time when the disorder was rarely diagnosed. "When my brother trained at Children's Hospital at Harvard in the 1970s, they admitted a child with autism, and the head of the hospital brought all of the residents through to see," says Insel. "He said, 'You've got to see this case; you'll never see it again...
...Amaral is heading MIND's efforts to assemble a database of clinical, behavioral and genetic information on 1,800 autistic kids. One goal is to clearly define autism subtypes. "It's hard to do the genetics if you're talking about four or five different syndromes," says NIMH chief Insel. "Does the presence of seizures define a separate illness? What about the kids who seem to develop normally for the first year and a half and then regress - is that a separate thing?" And what about the large number of autistic kids who have serious gastrointestinal problems and the many...
...that rides to the rescue. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) paid $42.6 million to study existing drugs for schizophrenia. It's money well spent, says institute director Dr. Thomas Insel, but "that's money we can't put into developing the next generation of these compounds or understanding the biology of this disease...
...Depression sometimes precludes its own treatment because you lack the energy to take action," says NIMH director Dr. Thomas Insel, who was trained as a psychiatrist. "It's like a loss of life force...
Weaver's wife was sympathetic, but she also insisted that he see a doctor. Insel says this kind of feminine push--from a wife, daughter or mother--is often what it takes to get a depressed man into treatment. In Weaver's case it was relatively easy, since he at least realized that something was wrong. For many men, it's the women of the house who not only insist on treatment but must diagnose the disorder in the first place...