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Steven E. Hyman, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and a former Harvard Medical School professor, will be named the University’s new provost on Monday, pending the approval of the Harvard Corporation...
...choose NIMH as the place of my summer internship? I was admittedly relieved when I found out that I wouldn't be responsible for any animal experimentation in the lab. But more importantly, I was and still am grappling with questions about the mental processes and their origins. Primarily, I've been struggling with finding the paradigm I'm most comfortable with using to examine human consciousness. Cognitive science is a burgeoning field that employs analytical frameworks running the gamut from computer algorithms to psychological models to biochemical pathways. Meanwhile, these latest tools for thinking about thinking fit into...
...sort out not only what it means to think, but from what vantage point I can investigate thinking in the most clear-sighted--or should I say clear-minded--way. This is not an effort very different from that of Nicodemus and his heroic troops. The rats of NIMH caution us that it is sometimes in the search for what makes us greatest--in this case, civilization and wisdom--that we become more estranged rather than closer to what makes...
This summer at NIMH, I've faced some tough issues about the direction in which neuroscience and psychiatry are headed. Once the art of the medical world, psychiatry is now the focus of the latest pharmaceutical technology and biomolecular manipulation. The laboratory where I've been working takes a genetic approach to analysis of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD, otherwise known as manic depression) and schizophrenia, each of which is estimated to affect 1 percent of the population worldwide. Deep within the bowels of NIMH, our effort to climb to the seat of the mind had been relegated...
While these findings haven't yet convinced me that I want to devote my life's work to neurogenetics, they have modified the picture of the cold, calculating scientist at work at NIMH. Statistical uncertainty in genetic studies, disagreement over diagnostic guidelines and the sociology of genetics isolates show that there is humanist method to the scientific madness of neurogenetics. Hollywood producers: I think that "The Secret of NIMH" is due for a sequel...