Lanie Bachmann discusses how different emotional expressions capture your attention and whether anxiety may act as a modulating factor through an online visual search experiment. Topics: Anxiety
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Breaking Down Barriers to HIV Medication Access
Researchers investigated whether home delivery of ART for a modest fee could help improve ART access and use, finding it resulted in increased viral suppression in participants compared with clinic-based medication distribution.
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Long-acting antiretroviral therapy suppresses HIV among people with unstable housing, mental illnesses, substance use disorder
A long-acting antiretroviral treatment given every four to eight weeks, and delivered with comprehensive support services, suppressed HIV in people who were previously not virologically suppressed.
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Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: The Opioid Crisis: Disrupting the Status Quo with the HEALing Communities Study
During this lecture, Sharon L. Walsh, Ph.D., will discuss how the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is testing the prevention and treatment of opioid misuse in select communities hard hit by the opioid crisis.
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Attention to Geometric Images May Offer Biomarker for Some Toddlers with Autism
An NIMH-supported study shows that preference for geometric images may be robust enough to serve as a biomarker for identifying some young children with autism.
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Mechanisms of Reciprocal Interactions between HIV Associated Neuroinflammation and Central Nervous System (CNS) Persistence: Implications in HIV Neuropathogenesis and Cure
The goal of this concept is to examine mechanisms of reciprocal interactions between HIV-associated neuroinflammation and central nervous system (CNS) persistence in the setting of excellent virologic control using novel CNS cell systems, organoid models, and single-cell technologies.
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Novel Approaches to Understanding the Mechanisms of the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and Advancing Therapy Development
This concept aims to encourage research that will enhance knowledge of mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in dementia, leading to the development of novel treatments.
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NIMH Researcher Karen Berman Elected as AAAS Fellow
Karen Berman, M.D., a senior investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been elected as a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Associated With Worse Mental Health and Accelerated Brain Development in Adolescents
An NIMH-supported study suggests that adolescents living through the COVID-19 pandemic may be experiencing more anxiety and depression symptoms and accelerated brain aging.
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Health Economics at NIMH and NIDA – Domestic and International
This meeting will highlight health economics research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
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