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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Audio » Dr. Niko Kriegeskorte: How can computer models help us better understand the brain?

Dr. Niko Kriegeskorte, a computational neuroscientist from the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University, discusses the challenges of deriving insight into the principles of brain function using fMRI and other neuroimaging methods.

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Video » Webinar for Nurses - How to Use the ASQ to Detect Patients at Risk for Suicide

In this webinar, Dr. Lisa Horowitz reviews how to conducts suicide risk screening with the ASQ tool. This training is for nurses.

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Blog Post » Planting the Seed: Today’s Research Shapes Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs

In this Director’s message, Dr. Gordon digs into the historical roots of the hippocampus and the role it plays in human memory – an example of how scientists build upon past research discoveries and, in turn, advance the science that could benefit future generations.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Praying for Mozambique

Friday, June 7, 2019

Lesvos Summer Outreach and Go 2020

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Concept Clearance » Renewal of the National Cooperative Drug/Device Discovery/Development Groups (NCDDG) for the Treatment of Mental or Substance Use Disorders or Alcohol Addiction

The goal of the NCDDG Program is to advance the discovery, preclinical development, and early proof of concept testing in humans of new pharmacologic and neuromodulatory approaches to treat mental disorders, substance use disorders (SUDs), or alcohol addiction, and to develop novel ligands and circuit-engagement devices as tools to further characterize existing or to validate new drug/device targets.

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Concept Clearance » BRAIN Initiative: Marmosets for Neuroscience Research

One of the goals of this concept is to increase the number of marmosets that are available to the neuroscience research community. The second major goal of this concept is to continue the development of the tools and technologies for transgenic manipulation and characterization of marmosets.

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Concept Clearance » Genetic Architecture of Mental Disorders in Ancestrally Diverse Populations

The goal of this initiative is to support the collection and genomic characterization of cohorts with severe mental illness from diverse ancestral backgrounds. The focus of this initiative will be the collection of large patient cohorts of non-Caucasian or admixed ancestries in the U.S. and around the globe. Study designs using case-control, parent-offspring trios, nuclear families or a combination thereof will be supported.

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Concept Clearance » Accelerating Treatment Development Research in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis

This concept proposes to establish a network of academic and community sites that can rapidly recruit well-characterized cohorts of help-seeking individuals who meet criteria for “clinical high risk” (CHR) for psychosis. The multi-site network will conduct collaborative studies to test and validate biological measures and prediction algorithms to support experimental medicine trials involving CHR participants.

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Concept Clearance » Adapting Immunotherapy Strategies for Targeting HIV Reservoirs in the CNS: Potential Benefits and Risks

The goal of this initiative is to adapt immunotherapy-based strategies to target viral reservoirs in the central nervous system (CNS) and to examine the potential risks of applying such technologies to the CNS.

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Concept Clearance » Renewal of the Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research

The purpose of the Conte Centers program is to support interdisciplinary teams of researchers engaged in novel, creative, and integrated experimental approaches to address high-risk, high-impact scientific questions in either basic neuroscience research or in translational research that will significantly advance the state of the science in brain and behavioral research to ultimately provide the foundation for understanding mental disorders and/or transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses, as well as developing data and other research resources that are available to the scientific community to further advance research in this field.

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Concept Clearance » BRAIN Initiative: Non-Invasive Neuromodulation - New Tools and Techniques for Spatiotemporal Precision

The goal of this initiative is to support grant applications in two related but distinct areas. The first area involves developing and testing novel tools and methods of neuromodulation that go beyond the existing forms of neural stimulation. The second area involves the optimization of existing stimulation methods.

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Concept Clearance » Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance Neural Circuitry Understanding of Mental Health Disorders

The goal of this initiative is to encourage researchers to utilize invasive neural recording opportunities in humans to study the neural circuity underlying mental health disorders.

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Concept Clearance » Identification, Validation, and Manipulation of Neural Circuits Related to Mental Illness, in Non-human Primates

The goal of this initiative is to support the identification, validation and manipulation of neural circuits that underlie cognitive, emotional, and social processes impacted in mental illnesses. The initiative is focused on probing psychiatrically relevant behavior through studies in non-human primates. This initiative is intended to complement existing NIMH-funded preclinical investigation of circuits which have often focused on smaller brains.

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Concept Clearance » Renewal of the Development and Application of PET and SPECT Imaging Ligands as Biomarkers for Drug Discovery and for Pathophysiological Studies of CNS Disorders

The goal of this initiative is to encourage the development of novel radioligands for positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging to study the pathophysiology and treatment of brain disorders.

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Concept Clearance » BRAIN Initiative Models of the Developing Human Nervous System

The goal of this BRAIN Initiative is to stimulate basic research to develop next-generation human cell-derived assays, including those involving human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), with improved fidelity to complex human brain, spinal cord, and/or sensory end organ circuit physiology, particularly with respect to developmental trajectories.

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Concept Clearance » Implementation Research in HRSA Ryan White Clinics: Screening and Treatment for Mental Illnesses to further the National “Ending the HIV Epidemic” (EtHE) Goals

The goal of this initiative is to enhance screening and treatment for mental illnesses in HRSA Ryan White clinics through implementation research, to advance the goals of the “Ending the HIV Epidemic” (EtHE) initiative.

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Concept Clearance » Autism Biomarkers for Clinical Trials

The goal of this initiative is to encourage the necessary next stages of development and validation of biomarkers with putative value for use in clinical trials for treatments of the core social deficits of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including multi-site testing and validation for a specific ‘context of use’ (e.g., diagnostic, enrichment, stratification) as a drug development tool.

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