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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Monday, September 30, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Twitter Chat » NIMH Twitter Chat: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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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Monday, September 23, 2019
Science News » Gene Regulators Work Together for Oversized Impact on Schizophrenia Risk
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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Friday, September 20, 2019
Concept Clearance » Behavioral Tasks Targeting Brain Subsystems Relevant to Anhedonia
This initiative seeks to develop task-based behavioral measures, which will be validated with neuroimaging and then used as behavioral readouts serving as a proxy for engagement of brain subsystems relevant to anhedonia.
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Concept Clearance » Practice-Based Research for Implementing Scalable Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions in Primary Care Settings
The goal of this concept is to encourage practice-based research aimed at refining and testing developmentally-focused theory-based efficacious prevention interventions and to be scalable and sustainable for implementation in pediatric-serving primary care settings. This concept has an emphasis on underserved populations.
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Concept Clearance » Mentoring Networks for Mental Health Research Education
This is a re-issue of a long standing R25 program announcement that aims to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
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Concept Clearance » Mood Disorders in People Living with HIV: Mechanisms and Pathways
The purpose of this initiative is to support studies to better understand the interplay of biological, behavioral, emotional and psychosocial mechanisms and pathways that underlie mood disorders in people living with HIV (PLHIV).
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Concept Clearance » Short Courses for Mental Health Research Education
This is a re-issue of a long standing R25 program announcement that aims to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.
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Concept Clearance » Research Education Programs for Psychiatry Residents
This is a re-issue of a long standing R25 program announcement that aims to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.
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Concept Clearance » Expanding Differentiated Care Approaches for Adolescents Living with HIV
The goal of this concept is to develop and test novel approaches to delivering differentiated care to adolescents who are living with HIV around the world.
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Concept Clearance » Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health
: The goal of this initiative is to foster research collaborations between academic researchers and digital health tevhnology developers to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions.
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Concept Clearance » Post-Acute Interventions for the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa
This concept seeks applications for projects to evaluate preliminary effectiveness of interventions targeting sustained and enhanced clinical response following acute treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). In this pilot research phase, trials should be designed to evaluate the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability, safety, and target engagement, as well as potential effectiveness, with a deployment-focused approach to facilitate approaches that are scalable to community settings.
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Concept Clearance » Mental Health Consultation via Telehealth to Optimize Care for Emergency Department Patients with Suicide Risk
The goal of this proposed initiative is to identify feasible approaches to telehealth-supplied suicide prevention practices, and how this consultation affects patient suicide-related outcomes that include intentional and non-intentional injuries and mortality, and suicide related-health utilization patterns.
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Concept Clearance » Engineering Next-Generation Human Nervous System Microphysiological Systems
This concept encourages research directed toward developing next-generation human cell-derived microphysiological systems (MPS) and related assays that replicate complex nervous system architectures and physiology with improved fidelity over current capabilities.
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Concept Clearance » Eradication of HIV-1 from Central Nervous System Reservoirs
The goal of this initiative is to study mechanisms of HIV-1 persistence and eradication strategies specifically focused on the central nervous system in the context of viral suppression.
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Concept Clearance » Fine-Mapping Genome-Wide Associated Loci to Identify Proximate Causal Mechanisms
The objective of this concept is to develop and apply resources and tools for the large-scale and systematic fine-mapping of serious mental disorders and related traits.
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Concept Clearance » Social Drivers of Mental Illnesses in Low- & Middle-Income Countries: Mechanisms and Pathways of Interventions for Youth
To better understand mechanisms and pathways by which interventions targeting social drivers of mental illnesses impact mental health outcomes for youth living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
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Concept Clearance » Effectiveness of Implementing Sustainable Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices in Low-Resource Settings to Achieve Equity in Outcomes for Traditionally Underserved Populations
The goal of this initiative is to encourage studies that develop and test the effectiveness of strategies for implementation and sustainable delivery of evidence-based mental health practices (EBPs) in settings where limited capital and human resources create barriers to care delivery, in order to improve mental health outcomes for underserved populations and reduce or eliminate health disparities.
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Concept Clearance » HIV Infection of the CNS
The goal of this initiative is to encourage innovative research to comprehend the mechanisms and pathways involved in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 associated CNS disease in the context of viral suppression and to identify treatment strategies to alleviate CNS complications of HIV-1.
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Science News » NIH Announces Funding Awards for National Early Psychosis Learning Community
NIMH awarded six research grants for studies to develop a learning health care system for the treatment of early psychosis.
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
Blog Post » Suicide Deaths Are a Major Component of the Opioid Crisis that Must Be Addressed
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In observance, Dr. Gordon has partnered with Dr. Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to highlight a dimension of the opioid crisis that receives too little attention—the links between opioid use, opioid use disorder, and suicide.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Scientific Meeting » Webinar: Insights from Social Psychology and Neuroscience on Bias
On September 18, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the NIMH Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity (ODWD) is hosting the second webinar in its 2019 series. Dr. Georgina Rippon of the Aston Brain Centre at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, will present “Insights from Social Psychology and Neuroscience on Bias.”
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Monday, September 9, 2019
Scientific Meeting » 10th Anniversary Conference: Global Mental Health Research Without Borders
The NIMH Center for Global Mental Health Research (CGMHR) and Grand Challenges Canada co-convened the 10th anniversary global mental health conference, April 8-9, 2019, on the main campus of the National Institutes of Health. More than 400 researchers, innovators, and other stakeholders from 36 countries attended the two-day conference, where they learned about findings from cutting-edge science and new opportunities for groundbreaking research to address the Grand Challenges In Global Mental Health.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Science News » Mental Health Research Centers Forge Collaborations – with ALACRITY
Mental health research center directors emerged from a recent meeting with a renewed commitment to help each other achieve their common mission – to transform care of children, adolescents and adults with severe psychiatric disorders.
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