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Video » Irritability in Children - Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D., NIMH Emotion and Development Branch, explains the history of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.

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Science News » Game Corrects Children’s Misreading of Emotional Faces to Tame...

A computer game that changes a tendency to misread ambiguous faces as angry is showing promise as a potential treatment for irritability in children

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Meeting Announcement » Critical Brain Dynamics 2016: Fifth Annual...

Fifth Annual International Workshop on Criticality and the Brain

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Science News » Webinar: Analyzing and Using RDoC Data in Your Research

The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit hosts a webinar featuring a conversation with three NIMH-funded researchers who have approached the issue of how to analyze and integrate data that...

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Video » Webinar: Analyzing and Using RDoC Data in Your Research

This webinar features a conversation with three NIMH-funded researchers who have approached the issue of how to analyze and integrate data that illustrate RDoC principles

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Video » Follow That Cell Prize Winners

Prize winners in the first phase of the NIH’s “Follow That Cell” Challenge discuss their proposals in this web chat, hosted by Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, Ph.D., program coordinator for the NIH Single...

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Video » iPS Cells & Organoids - Sci-Fi vs Reality

David Panchision, Ph.D., NIMH program director for stem cell research, discusses the promise of induced pluripotent stem cells and organoids for understanding and treating mental illness.

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Video » Circuit Tweak Boosts Social Memory in Mice

NIMH scientists have boosted the staying power of a social memory in mice at least 80-fold by stimulating a brain circuit they discovered.

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Video » One Mother’s Story

a short video describing one mother’s decision to donate her son’s brain tissue

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Science News » Electroconvulsive Therapy Lifts Depression, Sustains Remission...

An individualized program of follow-up treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with an antidepressant was effective in preventing relapse in patients 60 years and older who had had a...

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Meeting Summary » NIMH Outreach Partnership Program (OPP) Annual Meeting

The NIMH Office of Constituency Relations and Public Liaison convened the NIMH Outreach Partnership Program Annual Meeting to discuss the state of mental health research and intervention programs.

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Concept Clearance » Addressing Suicide Research Gaps: Aggregating Existing...

The purpose of this initiative is to leverage prior basic, clinical and intervention research on suicide risk and behaviors by encouraging the integration of existing data sets for novel secondary...

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Concept Clearance » Addressing Suicide Research Gaps: Understanding Mortality...

Health care system data (e.g., suicide attempt events) needs to be linked to mortality data so that a more accurate picture of the risks for, and burden of suicide among those seen in care is known.

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Science News » Connectome Map More Than Doubles Human Cortex’s Known Regions

Researchers have mapped 180 distinct areas on our brain’s cortex — more than twice the number previously known.

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Video » Mental Illness in Stressful Times – An Asian American Family’s Story

“An NIH/NIMH lifer” reveals how his Asian American family successfully coped with severe mental illness compounded by discrimination.

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Science News » Coping With Familial Mental Illness in Stressful Times

“An NIH/NIMH lifer” reveals how his Asian American family successfully coped with severe mental illness compounded by discrimination.

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Meeting Summary » NIMH Conference on Mental Health Services Research:...

NIMH hosted the 23rd Conference on Mental Health Services Research (MHSR) with the theme, Harnessing Science to Strengthen the Public Health Impact. The MHSR meeting is the nation’s premier mental...

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Science News » Tapping Crowd-Sourced Data Unearths a Trove of Depression Genes

Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites – the first ever – linked to depression in people of European ancestry. But – in a twist – the researchers didn’t have to sequence anyone’s genes! Instead,...

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Science News » NIMH Grantees Named Recipients of Prestigious Kavli Prize

Three NIMH grantees have been named recipients of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

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Science News » Schizophrenia, Autism Risk Gene Trajectories Point to Shared...

Schizophrenia, autism risk gene trajectories point to shared causes

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