Mental Health News – from National Institute of Mental Health
  • Development of Objective Measures for Use in Pediatric Drug Trials for Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorders September 11, 2025
    This effort aims to stimulate research in a major gap area in pediatric psychopharmacology for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, by encouraging the development of objective pediatric central nervous system (CNS) measures that can be incorporated into pharmacologic trials.
  • Research Education Programs for Psychiatry Residents September 11, 2025
    This is a re-issue of a long-standing R25 program announcement. The overarching goals of this initiative are to: (1) complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs; (2) help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical […]
  • Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research September 11, 2025
    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 and provide the foundation […]
  • Mentoring Networks for Mental Health Research Education September 11, 2025
    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. To address this goal, this concept would focus specifically on mentoring activities and in particular, mentoring networks.
  • Short Courses for Mental Health Research Education September 11, 2025
    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. To address this goal, this concept would focus specifically on mentoring activities and in particular, mentoring networks.
  • Research to Optimize the Effectiveness and Deployment of Suicide Prevention Services June 17, 2025
    This concept aims to support research to identify, optimize, and test solutions to enhance the effectiveness, quality, and availability of U.S. suicide prevention services.
  • Advancing Research on Empirically-Supported Interventions for Older Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness June 17, 2025
    The goal of this concept is to support research that addresses the optimization, effectiveness, implementation, coordination, and sustainability of empirically-supported therapeutic and services interventions within and across care settings to better meet the mental health needs of older adults with serious mental illness (SMI).
  • Accelerating Solutions to Understand the Potential of Fast-Acting Psychotomimetic Agents June 17, 2025
    The goal of this concept is to encourage research that aims to better understand the mechanisms and potential therapeutic impact of fast-acting psychotomimetic agents.
  • Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia June 17, 2025
    The goal of this concept is to support the extension of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ) Data Processing, Analysis and Coordination Center to complete final data processing and analysis required to complete the study.
  • Developing Tools for Measuring Mental Health Outcomes April 9, 2025
    The National Institutes of Health has funded six projects to develop, test, and validate outcome-focused quality measures for mental health, which are used to understand the impact of interventions when implemented in real-world health care systems and settings.