The NIH has announced its continued support for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative by funding more than 180 new BRAIN Initiative awards, bringing the total 2019 budget for the program to more than $424 million.
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Join NIMH’s upcoming Twitter chat on ADHD, covering signs, symptoms, treatments, current research, and tips for helping children and adults with ADHD. NIMH experts will be available to discuss the topic and answer questions live on Twitter.
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One of the most exciting recent breakthroughs from research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the development of a fast-acting medication for treatment-resistant depression based on ketamine. This treatment is bringing new hope to people and families affected by major depression.
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Researchers have uncovered sex-based differences in the development of the hippocampus and amygdala—brain areas that have been implicated in the biology of several mental disorders that impact males and females differently.
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Laura Padilla, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition, presents her three minute talk on reward related functional connectivity wth nucleus accumbens changes across puberty. Her study will attempt to disentangle the roles of age, puberty stage, and hormonal events of puberty in the development of reward processing.
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NIH announces 10 winners of the “Speaking Up About Mental Health! This Is My Story” national essay challenge, aimed at spurring conversations among youth about mental health and encouraging them to seek support for themselves and others.
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Franchesca Kuhney, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition, presents her three minute talk on hippocampus and amygdala volume across development in Willaims Syndrome. Her study begins to shed light on the complex neuro genetic mechanisms underlying adolescent brain development as a whole.
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Elisa Dumett Torres, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition, presents her three minute talk on viewing hippocampal functional coupling through the lens of environmental factor of urbanicity and the genetic factor BDNF. Her study provides a template for exploring the effects of gene environment interactions for general brain function and how this might be altered in psychiatric illness.
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Gene expression regulators work together to raise an individual’s risk of developing schizophrenia. Schizophrenia-like gene expression changes modeled in human neurons matched changes found in patients’ brains.
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NIMH awarded six research grants for studies to develop a learning health care system for the treatment of early psychosis.
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