Event Dates (Pacific Time):
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PMVenue Space:
Frederic de Hoffman Auditorium at the Salk Institute
Social Neuroscience: Toward a New Basic Science for Psychiatry
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
May 08, 2008
4:00 pm
Frederic de Hoffman Auditorium at the Salk Institute
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), will review more than two decades of research focusing on oxytocin and vasopressin, neuropeptides that provide a window into basic mechanisms for social behaviors.
His May 8 presentation, titled “Social Neuroscience: Toward a New Basic Science for Psychiatry,” will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Frederic de Hoffman Auditorium at the Salk Institute , which co-hosts the event with UC San Diego’s Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.
As director of the NIMH, a component of the National Institutes of Health, Insel oversees the agency that is charged with generating the knowledge needed to understand, treat and prevent mental disorders. With a budget of more than $1.4 billion, the NIMH leads the nation’s research on disorders that affect an estimated 44 million Americans, including one in five children.
Prior to his career at the NIMH, Insel was professor of psychiatry at Emory University, where he was founding director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, one of the largest science and technology centers, and concurrently served as director of a National Institutes of Health-funded Center for Autism Research.
Insel has conducted clinical research on obsessive-compulsive disorder, including some of the first treatment trials for OCD, and has published more than 200 scientific articles and four books, including the “Neurobiology of Parental Care” (with Michael Numan) in 2003.
Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served at a reception immediately following the presentation.
The flyer can be found here: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb1884162x/_1.pdf