Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Centers Meeting

The directors of the Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Research Centers will provide an overview of each of the projects and help each other achieve their common mission.

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Revolutionizing the Study of Mental Disorders

The Research Domain Criteria Initiative (RDoC) represented a new way to conceptualize the study of mental illnesses. In celebration of NIMH's 75th Anniversary, we reflect on the beginning and progress of this initiative.

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Study Reveals Potential Neural Marker for Social Impairment in Psychotic Disorders

Research funded by NIMH found a link between a low level of social interest among people with psychotic disorders and brain regions in the social motivation system.

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NICHD-NIMH Workshop: Impact of Technology and Digital Media on Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health discuss the impact of technology and digital media on child and adolescent development and mental health.

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Information Session: NIMH Intramural Research Program Training Opportunities (March)

Undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows are invited to learn about training opportunities available in the NIMH Intramural Research Program.

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NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tied to atypical interactions between the brain’s frontal cortex and information processing centers deep in the brain.

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Life with Schizoaffective Disorder

In this lived experience feature story, Ray Lay describes the challenges of living with schizoaffective disorder and his later success in life.

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Hidden Histories: Racial Injustice at St. Elizabeths Mental Hospital

A decade before the end of slavery, Washington D.C.'s St. Elizabeths Hospital began treating Black patients for mental illnesses. As the nation's first integrated, federally funded mental health facility, the concept was groundbreaking, but as history shows us, inclusion did not mean equality. In this episode, we'll talk with Dr. Martin Summers, author of Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions. We'll discuss how ideas of false racial differences shaped the inequitable care of the hospital's Black patients and learn how those ideas evolved over time.

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