Tom Insel: Startups, AI, Psychedelics, and SSRIs
Business Trip by PsyMed Ventures, a podcast exploring the future of mental health & wellness
Welcome back to Business Trip by PsyMed Ventures, a podcast exploring the future of mental health & wellness! 🍄
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 worked in industry to build 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
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