Science News » How “Quickly Forgotten” Early Life Experiences Mature the Brain
Brain memory circuitry’s keen sensitivity to experience during an early critical period enables long-term memory ability to develop through practice.
View ArticleScience News » Designer Agent Blocks Pain in Mice Without Morphine’s Side...
Scientists have synthesized a molecule with a unique profile of highly specific pain-relieving properties and demonstrated its efficacy in mice.
View ArticleMeeting Announcement » Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: Mechanisms,...
This one and a half day workshop will focus on critically assessing the use and potential of noninvasive neuromodulation techniques (specifically tDCS, tACS, and tRNS), and will identify research needs...
View ArticleMeeting Summary » Research on Early Identification and Linkage to Services...
The NIMH Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology Branch convened a one-day meeting with researchers from the NIMH Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Prevention, Early Detection, Engagement and Services...
View ArticleMeeting Summary » 2016 Webinar Series on Mental Health Disparities and Global...
The Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health (ORDGMH) organized a series of webinars on mental health disparities and global mental health from May through August 2016.
View ArticleScience News » Circuitry for Fearful Feelings, Behavior Untangled in Anxiety...
Untangling the brain circuitry of fearful feelings from that underlying defensive behaviors is key to improving treatments for anxiety disorders, argue two leading experts.
View ArticleScience News » Recruitment Begins for Landmark Study of Adolescent Brain...
The study will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000 children through adolescence into early adulthood.
View ArticleScience News » NIMH Funds 3 ‘Zero Suicide’ Grants
NIMH is supporting Zero Suicide efforts with 3 new research grants. Each project focuses on prevention and health care systems.
View ArticleScience News » Powered-Up Probe ID’s Schizophrenia Genes That Stunt Brain...
Scientists have pinpointed several schizophrenia-related gene variants that alter expression of other genes in illness-implicated circuitry of the human brain.
View ArticleScience News » RDoC Unit to Host Virtual “Office Hours”
RDoC Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announce that they are holding monthly virtual “office hours” starting Friday, October 14, 2016.
View ArticleVideo » Irritability in Children - Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Ellen Leibenluft, M.D., NIMH Emotion and Development Branch, explains the history of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.
View ArticleScience 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
View ArticleMeeting Announcement » Critical Brain Dynamics 2016: Fifth Annual...
Fifth Annual International Workshop on Criticality and the Brain
View ArticleScience 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...
View ArticleVideo » 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
View ArticleVideo » 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...
View ArticleVideo » 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.
View ArticleVideo » 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.
View ArticleVideo » One Mother’s Story
a short video describing one mother’s decision to donate her son’s brain tissue
View ArticleScience 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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