How Tech Can Actually Help Mental Health — With Ex-National Institute of Mental Health director Dr. Tom Insel

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dr. Tom Insel led the National Institue of Mental Health for 13 years, departing toward the end of the Obama administration for a career in tech. Insel joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the data on our devices may unlock the key to treatment. Our conversation covers how tech can help manage and treat illness, the privacy ramifications of collecting this data, and whether social media is actually harmful for our mental health. You can pre-order Dr. Insel's forthcoming book, Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness To Mental Health, here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670329/healing-by-thomas-insel-md/ Subscribe to Big Technology to read Dr. Insel's opinion piece: https://bigtechnology.substack.com/subscribe

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0:56.0	Well, we often hear about how tech is starting to harm our mental health, but can it help our
1:01.6	mental health?
1:02.7	It's a question that doesn't get asked too often, but someone that is asking it is our guest
1:08.5	today, Dr. Tom Insel.
1:10.7	He was the director of the National
1:12.6	Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015. He also led the mental health team at Alphabets
1:18.7	Verily. You may also know Alphabet by its other name. Google. Verily used to be part of Google X.
1:25.4	And he's got a book coming out. It's called Healing, Our Path from
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