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Many people who worked with Hyman at NIMH credit him with overhauling the institute’s mission by focusing multidisciplinary research on mental disorders such as brain diseases, rather than on the social or environmental circumstances that might contribute to such disorders...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

This sea change in NIMH focus led outside mental health researchers, funded in part by NIMH, to shift their focus as well...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...really raised the quality of the neuroscience research supported by NIMH,” says Alan Leshner, who was acting director of NIMH in the early 90s and director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, also within NIH, when Hyman was at NIMH. “But he also imposed a much higher standard on the clinical research. He wanted people to develop treatments for mental disorders that were evaluatable rather than believable...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

Colleagues say that at NIMH, Hyman was known for not tolerating “foolishness” or “mushy science,” which earned him a reputation for tough intellectual standards...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

Leshner attributes Hyman’s success at changing the course of NIMH to his leadership style...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

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