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.
View ArticleConcept 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...
View ArticleConcept 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.
View ArticleScience 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.
View ArticleVideo » 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.
View ArticleScience 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.
View ArticleMeeting 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...
View ArticleScience 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,...
View ArticleScience News » NIMH Grantees Named Recipients of Prestigious Kavli Prize
Three NIMH grantees have been named recipients of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
View ArticleScience News » Schizophrenia, Autism Risk Gene Trajectories Point to Shared...
Schizophrenia, autism risk gene trajectories point to shared causes
View ArticleScience 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.
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