Join experts from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for a workshop on treatment-resistant depression and the neurobiology of suicide.
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Research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health has shown that a shorter therapy (written exposure therapy) may be just as effective as lengthier first-line treatments for PTSD.
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This technical assistance webinar covers basics for the funding opportunity announcement entitled the NIMH Career Enhancement Award to Advance Autism Services Research for Adults and Transition-Age Youth.
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Those of you who follow Dr. Gordon on Twitter (@NIMHDirector) may have seen snippets of his experiences at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the largest gathering of neuroscientists in the world. In this Director’s message, Dr. Gordon highlights some of the excellent basic research on display at this year’s conference.
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Findings from NIMH’s Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) project indicate that team-based coordinated specialty care (CSC) for first episode psychosis (FEP) results in more optimal prescribing of antipsychotics and fewer side effects when compared with typical community care.
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A trainee tells her story of how NIMH/NIH training programs for members of underrepresented groups have nurtured her scientific career.
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NIMH trainee Frances Johnson offers advice to students interested in scientific research.
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Frances Johnson talks about her experiences as a recipient of a NIMH Diversity Supplement grant and her summer stint in an NIMH intramural lab under NIH’s G-SOAR Program.
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On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, from 11:30 AM ―1:30 PM ET, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the NIH’s Intramural Research Program (IRP) are teaming up to bring you a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) discussion with the NIMH’s Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr. During the event, Dr. Zarate will answer questions from the public about depression and his work on identifying novel therapeutics and biomarkers to improve its treatment.
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One of the most horrific—and least acknowledged–effects of mass incarceration is the epidemic of mental illness in our jails and prisons. On November 13, 2018, Alisa Roth, journalist and author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, will explain how this happened—and how we can fix it. Montgomery County Maryland’s State’s Attorney, John McCarthy, will discuss how mental health courts have improved public safety, prevented inappropriate incarceration, and transformed lives.
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