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NIMH Research Showcased at APA Meeting
May 18, 2005 • Press Release
At the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) annual meeting in Atlanta next week, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will showcase advances in translating new scientific knowledge into improved treatments for mental disorders.
Depression Gene May Weaken Mood-Regulating Circuit
May 9, 2005 • Press Release
A brain scan study suggests that a suspect gene may increase susceptibility to anxiety and depression by weakening a circuit for processing negative emotion.
Actor-Patients´ Requests for Medications Boost Prescribing for Depression
April 27, 2005 • Press Release
Critics of direct-to-consumer marketing fear the advertisements lead to over-prescribing. Proponents believe they can serve a useful educational function.
Brain Scans Reveal How Gene May Boost Schizophrenia Risk
April 21, 2005 • Press Release
Clues about how a suspect version of a gene may slightly increase risk for schizophrenia are emerging from a brain imaging study by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Brain Awareness Week Teaches Kids How Their Brains Work
March 7, 2005 • Science Update
The fifth annual Brain Awareness Week (BAW), a science and health education fair to teach 5th–8th grade students about the brain, will take place March 14–18, 2005 at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Solomon Snyder to be Awarded National Medal of Science
February 24, 2005 • Press Release
Dr. Solomon Snyder, longtime NIMH grantee and director of the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, will be awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush at a White House ceremony March 14th. nation’s highest science honor.
Rat Brain’s Executive Hub Quells Alarm Center if Stress is Controllable
February 11, 2005 • Press Release
Treatments for mood and anxiety disorders are thought to work, in part, by helping patients control the stresses in their lives. A new study in rats by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantees provides insight into the brain mechanisms likely involved.
Birds Brainier Than Previously Thought
February 3, 2005 • Press Release
The brains of birds appear to be more similar to those of mammals than previously thought.
New Neurons Born in Adult Rat Cortex
February 2, 2005 • Press Release
Recent evidence suggesting that antidepressants may act by triggering the birth of new neurons in the adult hippocampus the brain’s memory hub, has heightened interest in such adult neurogenesis and raised the question: Could new neurons also be sprouting up in the parts of the adult brain involved in the thinking and mood disturbances of depression and anxiety?
Nobel Laureate Axelrod, Neuroscience Pioneer
December 30, 2004 • Press Release
Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod, Ph.D., an NIMH researcher since 1955, died in his sleep early Wednesday morning, December 29, 2004.
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