Facebook Live: Childhood Irritability
NIMH is hosting a Facebook Live event on childhood irritability featuring NIMH expert Dr. Melissa Brotman, chief of the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit in the Intramural Research Program.
Learn MoreHelping People With Serious Mental Illness Quit Smoking
In a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and published in JAMA Psychiatry, Gail Daumit, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University, A. Eden Evins, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues developed a tobacco smoking cessation intervention for people with serious mental illness.
Learn More2023 Global Mental Health Conference: Research Without Borders
The 12th Global Mental Health Research Without Borders Conference brings together researchers, innovators, and scholars from around the globe to highlight cutting-edge findings and explore new opportunities for groundbreaking research.
Learn MoreTechnical Assistance Webinar: The Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk Genes
This technical assistance webinar is for prospective applicants of the Notice of Funding Opportunity: The Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk Genes.
Learn MoreDirector’s Innovation Speaker Series: Social Connection: An Eye to the Past, Present, and Future
During this lecture, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., will discuss the health impacts of having or lacking social connection.
Learn MoreScientists Unveil Detailed Cell Maps of the Human Brain and the Nonhuman Primate Brain
A group of international scientists have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain, allowing for a deeper knowledge of the cellular basis of brain function and dysfunction, helping pave the way for a new generation of precision therapeutics for people with mental disorders and other disorders of the brain.
Learn More2023 NIMH James S. Jackson Memorial Award Lecture: The Critical Health Equity Imperative: Five Insights About Reducing Health Inequities from my Research with U.S. Black LGB People and Heterosexual Men
The winner of the 2023 James S. Jackson Memorial Award, Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., M.A. will discuss her research on reducing health inequities.
Learn MoreTechnical Assistance Webinar: Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors
This technical assistance webinar was held for prospective applicants of the following Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs): Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) and Data Coordinating Center for Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).
Learn MoreDepression: The Case for Ketamine
Ketamine. For some people with treatment-resistant depression, this experimental therapy proved to be more than just life-changing—it was lifesaving. But how did a drug once used as a battlefield anesthetic evolve into esketamine, a treatment for major depressive illnesses? In this episode, we’ll talk with Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr., who helped lay the groundwork for esketamine for treatment-resistant depression. We’ll learn the history behind the development of esketamine, how it can help with depression, and what the future holds for this innovative line of clinical research.
Learn MoreNIH Launches Community-Led Research Program to Advance Health Equity
NIH is funding a first-of-its-kind community-led research program to study ways to address the underlying structural factors within communities that affect health, such as access to safe spaces, healthy food, employment opportunities, transportation, and quality health care.
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