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- Web-based Programs Encourage Safer Sex Behaviors among Men at Risk for HIV/AIDS
- August 11, 2009 • Science Update
Web-based Programs Encourage Safer Sex Behaviors among Men at Risk for HIV/AIDS - Economic Analysis Estimates Cost of Providing Comprehensive Mental Health Care Following Disasters
- August 11, 2009 • Science Update
Study Clarifies Public Health Value of Large-Scale Mental Health Recovery Efforts - Combination Treatment for Psychotic Depression Holds Promise
- August 07, 2009 • Science Update
A combination of an atypical antipsychotic medication and an antidepressant known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) may be more effective in treating psychotic depression than an atypical antipsychotic alone, according to results from an NIMH-funded clinical study. - Youth with Autism Coming of Age: New NIMH Study Will Focus on Transitions in Service Use and Coverage
- August 07, 2009 • Science Update
The transition from teen to young adult involves many highly anticipated rites of passage. However, for youths with developmental disorders, coming of age may signal the sudden end of coverage for education and training programs, health insurance, and youth-oriented services. - Major NIMH Research Project to Test Approaches to Altering the Course of Schizophrenia
- July 21, 2009 • Press Release
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is launching a large-scale research project to explore whether using early and aggressive treatment, individually targeted and integrating a variety of different therapeutic approaches, will reduce the symptoms and prevent the gradual deterioration of functioning that is characteristic of chronic schizophrenia. - Evidence-Based Prevention is Goal of Largest Ever Study of Suicide in the Military
- July 16, 2009 • Press Release
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has announced that an interdisciplinary team of four research institutions will carry out the largest study of suicide and mental health among military personnel ever undertaken, with $50 million in funding from the U.S. Army. Study investigators aim to move quickly to identify risk and protective factors for suicide among soldiers and provide a science base for effective and practical interventions to reduce suicide rates and address associated mental health problems. - NIH Launches the Human Connectome Project to Unravel the Brain’s Connections
- July 16, 2009 • Press Release
The National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is launching a $30 million project that will use cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to map the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain. By systematically collecting brain imaging data from hundreds of subjects, the Human Connectome Project (HCP) will yield insight into how brain connections underlie brain function, and will open up new lines of inquiry for human neuroscience. - Brain Emotion Circuit Sparks as Teen Girls Size Up Peers
- July 15, 2009 • Press Release
What is going on in teenagers’ brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys. The study by Daniel Pine, M.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of National Institutes of Health, and colleagues, shows how emotion circuitry diverges in the male and female brain during a developmental stage in which girls are at increased risk for developing mood and anxiety disorders. - Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
- July 01, 2009 • Press Release
A trio of genome-wide studies – collectively the largest to date – has pinpointed a vast array of genetic variation that cumulatively may account for at least one third of the genetic risk for schizophrenia. One of the studies traced schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in part, to the same chromosomal neighborhoods. - Brief, Clinic-Based, Peer-led Intervention Helps Reduce Subsequent STDs in African American Men
- June 18, 2009 • Science Update
A brief, one-time intervention delivered by a trained peer health advisor was an effective and low-cost method for reducing new infections among young, heterosexual, African American men diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), according to an NIMH-funded study. Such programs may help reduce STD-related health disparities, which currently affect a disproportionate number of African American men in the United States. The study was published in the April 2009 supplemental issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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