• Tom Insel: Startups, AI, Psychedelics, and SSRIs

  • Dec 15 2023
  • Length: 58 mins
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  • Tom Insel is an entrepreneur and former director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, the lead US agency supporting mental health research with a $2 billion budget. Since his time at the NIMH, Tom has built mental health technology, first at Verily and Mindstrong Health, and more recently founded Vanna Health, an online healthcare provider for serious mental illness.

    In his book "Healing", he talks about the importance of the 3 P's for solving the US mental health crisis: People, Place, and Purpose. Greg & Matias interview Tom on Business Trip to discuss the 4th "P": Payment. "We have to figure out how to pay for this", he says.

    In this episode, we discuss…

    • Psychedelics in the healthcare system
    • Are antidepressants overprescribed?
    • AI in mental health
    • Tom’s learnings from almost starting a VC fund

    Credits:

    Created by Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky
    Host: Matias Serebrinsky & Greg Kubin
    Produced by Jonathan A. Davis, Nico V. Rey & Caitlin Ner

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    Theme music by Dorian Love
    Additional Music: Distant Daze by Zack Frank
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