Emotion, Mood, and Depressive Disorder Program
Overview
This program supports research that translates basic, risk, and developmental research into novel preventive and therapeutic interventions for mood dysregulation, depressive disorders, and suicidal behavior. Includes basic developmentally-sensitive research on biological, psychosocial, and environmental processes associated with emotion, temperament, and mood regulation, as well as developmentally-sensitive research on biological, psychosocial, environmental, and genetic influences on the development of or protection from depression.
Areas of Emphasis
- Integrative interdisciplinary research on the emergence of sex differences in the development of or protection from disorder during adolescence.
- Neurobehavioral mechanisms associated with pediatric affective disorders, including limited relevant studies in non-human animals.
- Phenotypic validation of clinically and neurobiologically relevant mood disorder subtypes.
- Development of interventions that delay or prevent the onset and recurrence of depressive episodes and secondary psychopathology.
Contact
Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D.
Program Chief
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6164, MSC 9617
301-443-5944, avenevos@mail.nih.gov
