Transforming the understanding
and treatment of mental illnesses.
Transforming the understanding
and treatment of mental illnesses.
NIMH envisions a world in which mental illnesses are prevented and cured.
Dr. Rosalind Picard, Director of Affective Computing Research at MIT, and her team have invented many ways in which technology can objectively measure and communicate human emotion, including new tools for facial and physiological analysis.
Clinical Research Studies (Clinical Trials) are of primary importance to the NIMH mission.
Dr. Bandettini is Chief of the Section on Functional Imaging Methods in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition of the Intramural Research Program, NIMH. He is also the director of the Functional MRI Core Facility which provides functional MRI support to NIMH, NINDS and several other institutes at the NIMH.
Dr. Beebe Smith is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Neuroadaptation and Protein Metabolism of the Intramural Research Program. Dr. Smith received a Ph.D. from the University of London where she studied the chemical pathology of Alzheimer's Disease with David Bowen, for which she was awarded the Queen Square Prize.
Dr. Berman’s group uses functional neuroimaging to map brain activity and neurochemical mechanisms associated with normal higher cognitive function as well as dysfunction in neuropsychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, illnesses having genetic sources of cognitive dysfunction such as Williams syndrome and other conditions impacting cognition such as normal aging.
Explore NIMH publications and online resources.
Explore las publicaciones y recursos en línea del NIMH.
Funding News for Current and Future NIMH Awardees.
Learn more about RDoC, a research framework that supports new ways of studying mental disorders.
Learn more about the NIH NeuroBioBank and brain tissue donation.
