Mental Health News – from National Institute of Mental Health
- Research to Optimize the Effectiveness and Deployment of Suicide Prevention Services June 17, 2025This 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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.
- How the Brain Creates New Memories While Maintaining Old Ones April 2, 2025A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health uncovered patterns in the activation of old and new memories during sleep that keep these memories separate.
- Predictive Models Show Promise in Preventing Suicide March 27, 2025In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers created new suicide risk prediction models using data in electronic health records from the Indian Health Service.
- Study Illuminates the Structural Features of Memory Formation at the Cellular and Subcellular Levels March 20, 2025In a study supported by NIMH, researchers revealed the structural underpinnings of memory formation across a broad network of neurons in the mouse brain.
- Study Illuminates the Genetic Architecture of Bipolar Disorder March 4, 2025Largest-ever genome-wide study of a diverse group of people with bipolar disorder sheds new light on the genetic architecture underlying the disorder.
- Dr. Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby to Depart NIMH February 25, 2025Sarah Hollingsworth “Holly” Lisanby, M.D., Director of the Division of Translational Research, will depart NIMH this spring to join Arizona State University.