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NIMH Grant to Explore Genetics of Autism
October 8, 2004 • Press Release
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced this week a 3-year, $3 million grant to Johns Hopkins University to study the genetic factors underlying autism.
New Learning Techniques Improves Global HIV/AIDS Prevention
September 28, 2004 • Press Release
Researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, have found that advanced communication technologies — including multimedia CDs — can improve world-wide dissemination of new HIV/AIDS prevention models to providers of health services.
Rare Deficit Maps Thinking Circuitry
September 1, 2004 • Press Release
Using brain imaging, neuroscientists at the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have pinpointed the site of a defect in a brain circuit associated with a specific thinking deficit.
Combination Treatment Most Effective in Adolescents with Depression
August 17, 2004 • Press Release
A clinical trial of 439 adolescents with major depression has found a combination of medication and psychotherapy to be the most effective treatment.
Schizophrenia Gene Variant Linked to Risk Traits
August 11, 2004 • Press Release
Researchers at the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have identified a relationship between a small section of one gene, the brain chemical messenger glutamate, and a collection of traits known to be associated with schizophrenia.
Brain’s Reward Circuitry Revealed in Procrastinating Primates
August 10, 2004 • Press Release
Using a new molecular genetic technique, scientists have turned procrastinating primates into workaholics by temporarily suppressing a gene in a brain circuit involved in reward learning.
Depression Traced to Overactive Brain Circuit
August 2, 2004 • Press Release
A brain imaging study by the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found that an emotion-regulating brain circuit is overactive in people prone to depression—even when they are not depressed.
Imaging Study Shows Brain Maturing
May 17, 2004 • Press Release
The brain’s center of reasoning and problem solving is among the last to mature, a new study graphically reveals.
Research to Test Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
May 6, 2004 • Press Release
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a four-year, $9 million contract to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and five other academic medical centers to create a network of Treatment Units for Research on Neurocognition and Schizophrenia (TURNS).
Brain Signal Predicts Working Memory Prowess
April 16, 2004 • Press Release
Some people are better than others at remembering what they have just seen—holding mental pictures in mind from moment to moment.
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