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- A Participant's Guide to Mental Health Clinical Research
This brochure, prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), provides answers to common questions about volunteering for mental health clinical research. NIMH is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.
Date: 2008 - Looking at My Genes: What Can They Tell Me?
A fact sheet containing frequently asked questions about genome scans and genetic testing.
Date: 2008 - Teenage Brain: A work in progress
A brief overview of research into brain development during adolescence.
Date: 2001
Science News
- Anxious and Depressed Teens and Adults: Same Version of Mood Gene, Different Brain Reactions
- Learning Disability Reversed in Mice
- Genomic Dragnet Finds Clues to Likely Suspects in Alzheimer’s
- Genes That Turn On Together Hold Secrets of Brain’s Molecular Instructions
- Brain’s Response to Scary Faces Imaged Faster Than You Can Say “Boo!”
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Scientific Meetings
- NIH Conference on Building the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in the Service of Public Health
- Roundtable on Mood Disorders and Hormonal Transitions
- NIMH Annual International Research Conference on the Role of Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS
- Cognition and Stress: Advances in Basic and Translational Research
- Mental Health Consideration in Secondary HIV Prevention