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- Human Brain Appears “Hard-Wired” for Hierarchy
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April 23, 2008
Press Release
Human imaging studies have for the first time identified brain circuitry associated with social status, according to researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health. - Mark Your Calendars, NIMH Science Track at APA Annual Meeting, May 3-8, 2008
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April 17, 2008
Science Update
NIMH will host science track symposia, lectures, press conferences at the American Psychiatric Association 161st Annual Meeting. - Journal Highlights Effectiveness of Research Based Psychotherapies for Youth
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April 15, 2008
Science Update
Reviews of the current research on psychosocial and behavioral therapies, or psychotherapies, for children and adolescents found a number of “well established” and “probably efficacious” treatments for many mental disorders. The results were published in a special issue of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. - Maintenance Treatment Crucial for Teens’ Recovery from Depression
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April 8, 2008
Science Update
Long-term maintenance treatment is likely to sustain improvement and prevent recurrence among adolescents with major depression, according to an NIMH-funded study. - OCD Risk Higher When Several Variations in Gene Occur Together
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April 7, 2008
Science Update
Several variations within the same gene act together to raise the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), new NIMH research suggests. - New Research to Help People with Mental Disorders Quit Smoking
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April 4, 2008
Science Update
A new grant funded by NIMH will develop an intervention designed to help people with serious mental illness (SMI) quit smoking. - Paying More for Prescriptions May Limit Seniors’ Access to Antidepressants
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April 2, 2008
Science Update
New cost-sharing policies may prevent some older adults diagnosed with depression from filling new antidepressant prescriptions. - Newly Awarded Autism Centers of Excellence to Further Autism Research
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April 1, 2008
Press Release
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on March 24, 2008, the latest recipients of the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program. These grants will support studies covering a broad range of autism research areas, including early brain development and functioning, social interactions in infants, rare genetic variants and mutations, associations between autism-related genes and physical traits, possible environmental risk factors and biomarkers, and a potential new medication treatment. - Rates of Rare Mutations Soar Three to Four Times Higher in Schizophrenia
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March 27, 2008
Press Release
People with schizophrenia have high rates of rare genetic deletions and duplications that likely disrupt the developing brain, according to studies funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. - Autism Gene Scans Converge on Two Suspect Sites, Two Types of Genetic Risk
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March 19, 2008
Science Update
Four teams of scientists, using resources supported in part by NIMH, have pinpointed two different sites in the genome, each conferring a different type of genetic risk for autism.