Mental Health News – from National Institute of Mental Health
- Disability, Equity, and Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Improving Mental Health Equity for Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Conditions: An Examination of Risk and Protective Factors and Potential Interventions October 10, 2024This webinar will discuss the latest research on factors that impact depression and suicidality in autistic people and how to use community-based methods to develop effective interventions.
- Researchers Fully Map Neural Connections of the Fruit Fly Brain October 2, 2024A scientific team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled the first complete map of the neural connections of the common fruit fly brain.
- Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience for Mental Health in Individuals of Mexican Origin September 23, 2024In this webinar, presenters will discuss risk factors that Mexican-origin individuals may face, including discrimination and acculturation stress. They will also discuss research that examines how factors such as familism, ethnic pride, and temperament can help promote resilience among people of Mexican origin.
- 75th Anniversary Symposium: Inspiration and Aspiration: Future Perspectives in Mental Health Research September 20, 2024NIMH's final 75th Anniversary symposium brings together trailblazers in the scientific community to discuss diverse and visionary perspectives on the future of mental health research.
- Webinar: Timely and Adaptive Strategies to Optimize Suicide Prevention Interventions September 19, 2024This webinar brings together experts in areas that include passive and active data collection methods, the measurement of social contexts related to suicide risk, and the methodological aspects of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI).
- Navigator Emergency Department Diversion Models for Non-Urgent Mental Health Concerns September 17, 2024The purpose of this concept is to support research examining the effectiveness, implementation, adoption and scale-up of patient navigation emergency department (ED) diversion models for youth with non-urgent mental health concerns and their caregivers.
- Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported Practices for Youth Mental Health September 17, 2024This concept encourages youth (ages 0-25 years) mental health prevention, treatment, and services research that addresses barriers to empirically-supported and high-quality youth mental health care. It is expected that research supported by this concept will generate knowledge, methods, and approaches that can be readily applied in real-world settings and systems of care.
- Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health September 17, 2024The goal of this concept is to continue to foster research collaborations between academic researchers and digital health technology developers to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions. Research is also needed to optimize existing technology and understand factors related to engagement and sustainability of digital health […]
- Discovery of Proteins and Metabolites Implicated in Mental Illness and Neurodevelopmental Disorders September 17, 2024The goal of this concept is to determine changes in protein expression, post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, and/or metabolite abundance in human postmortem brain and human-derived cells across development and as a function of mental illness and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Treatment Strategies for CNS Complications in People with HIV September 17, 2024The purpose of this concept is to identify modifiable targets and mechanisms to alleviate clinically relevant central nervous system (CNS) complications and to develop comprehensive validated treatment strategies to improve outcomes in people with HIV. The key goal of the concept is to improve quality of life, reduce symptom severity, and maximize functional capacity in […]