Science News » Preference for Moving Shapes vs. People Linked to Autism in...
A 1-minute video showing computer screensavers next to videos of dancing children may prove to be a simple, inexpensive screening tool for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in toddlers. According to an...
View ArticleScience News » National Survey Confirms that Youth are Disproportionately...
About 20 percent of U.S. youth during their lifetime are affected by some type of mental disorder to an extent that they have difficulty functioning, according to a new NIMH survey published in the...
View ArticleMeeting Summary » Fresh Perspectives in Perinatal Depression Research:...
On October 5-6, 2010, the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR) convened a workshop to provide the growing number of early-stage perinatal depression psychosocial intervention and...
View ArticleBlog Post » Brain Scans – Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
Despite promising advances as a research tool, brain imaging is not quite ripe for clinical application in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
View ArticleScience News » NIH launches Genotype-Tissue Expression Project
The National Institutes of Health today announced awards to support an initiative to understand how genetic variation may control gene activity and its relationship to disease. Launched as a pilot...
View ArticleBlog Post » Investing in Innovation
NIH has created several funding mechanisms aimed at supporting innovative, unconventional research.
View ArticleDirector’s Update » Robert K. Heinssen, Ph.D., ABPP, Named Director of NIMH...
Robert K. Heinssen Ph.D., ABPP, has been named Director of the Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR) at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr. Heinssen has been serving as...
View ArticleMeeting Summary » Using Stem Cells to Model Psychiatric Disorders: NIH...
In October 2010, the NIMH convened a meeting of NIH grantees who use stem cells, particularly those derived from patients, as tools to identify fundamental molecular and cellular defects and the role...
View ArticleBlog Post » Spotlight on Postpartum Depression
Dr. Insel summarizes NIMH’s research efforts to better understand and treat postpartum depression.
View ArticleBlog Post » From Cognition to Genomics: Progress in Schizophrenia Research
This blog outlines recent progress in schizophrenia research, citing a special issue of the journal Nature focusing on schizophrenia.
View ArticleScience News » NIMH’s Dr. Mortimer Mishkin to be Awarded National Medal of...
National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D., will be awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony later this month. Mishkin is chief of the National...
View ArticleVideo » NIMH's Dr. Mortimer Mishkin - Recipient of the National Medal of Science
Video from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - Congratulations to Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, recipient of the National Medal of Science. Dr. Mishkin becomes the first National Institute of...
View ArticleAudio » NIH Radio: NIMH Investigators Talk about New Evidence that Suggests...
NIH Radio: NIMH investigators talk about new evidence that suggests exercise and positive environment can help hedge against stress related depression
View ArticleScience News » Most Children with Rapidly Shifting Moods Don’t Have Bipolar...
Relatively few children with rapidly shifting moods and high energy have bipolar disorder, though such symptoms are commonly associated with the disorder. Instead, most of these children have other...
View ArticleBlog Post » Wanted: A Few Good Assays
NIMH/NIH is nurturing medications development via assays that probe new molecular targets relevant to mental disorders.
View ArticleScience News » Teens Who Recover from Hard-to-treat Depression Still at Risk...
Teens with hard-to-treat depression who reach remission after 24 weeks of treatment are still at a significant risk for relapse, according to long-term, follow-up data from an NIMH-funded study...
View ArticleScience News » Toddlers with Autism Show Improved Social Skills Following...
Targeting the core social deficits of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in early intervention programs yielded sustained improvements in social and communication skills even in very young children who...
View ArticleBlog Post » Science Education – Investing for the Future
Dr. Insel discusses the need for science education and NIMH’s efforts to improve science literacy among all Americans.
View ArticleScience News » Transgenic Mouse Offers a Window on Gene/Environment...
Experiments in transgenic mice have provided a novel glimpse of how a prenatal infection could interact with a specific gene variant to cause behavioral and neurologic changes in adults that mirror...
View ArticleVideo » Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression may be one of the most under-recognized and under-treated disorders. Yet, it impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands of new mothers. This video looks at those who are at...
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