Science News » Scan Predicts Whether Therapy or Meds Will Best Lift Depression
Pre-treatment scans of brain activity predicted whether depressed patients would best achieve remission with an antidepressant medication or psychotherapy, in a study that may help mental health...
View ArticleBlog Post » Open Data
Dr. Insel talks about the value of data sharing and collaboration to promote innovation and scientific discovery.
View ArticleScience News » NIH Funds Industry Collaborations to Identify New Uses for...
NIH Funds Industry Collaborations to Identify New Uses for Existing Compounds
View ArticleScience News » Skewed Norms Weaken Case for Early Brain Overgrowth in Autism
Biases in standardized norms used to compare data on head size weakens evidence for early excess brain growth in autism, say NIMH intramural researchers.
View ArticleScience News » NIMH Twitter Chat on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Learn about post-traumatic stress disorder by joining NIMH’s Farris Tuma for a Twitter chat.
View ArticleScience News » Community-based Treatments Offset Depression Disparities
Improving care for depression in low-income communities -- places where such help is frequently unavailable or hard to find -- provides greater benefits to those in need when community groups such as...
View ArticleMeeting Summary (Outreach) » Alliance for Research Progress — July 12, 2013...
Summary for the July 2013 meeting of the Alliance for Research Progress.
View ArticleScience News » Tom Insel Discusses The BRAIN Initiative on The Charlie Rose...
With nearly 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, the human brain remains one of the greatest mysteries in science and one of the greatest challenges in medicine. NIMH Director Thomas Insel...
View ArticleBlog Post » Getting Serious About Mental Illnesses
Dr. Insel explains the nuances of the term, “serious mental illness.”
View ArticleScience News » Stray Prenatal Gene Network Suspected in Schizophrenia
Researchers have reverse-engineered the outlines of a disrupted prenatal gene network in schizophrenia, by tracing spontaneous mutations to where and when they likely cause damage in the brain.
View ArticleScience News » Webinar on Ketamine and Next Generation Therapies Featuring...
On August 13, 2013, Carlos A. Zarate, M.D., from the National Institute of Mental Health will give a live presentation titled “Ketamine & Next Generation Therapies,” where he will discuss his...
View ArticleBlog Post » A Sampling of Summer Science
Dr. Insel reports in his blog about intriguing findings published this summer on the genes and disruptions in brain circuitry involved in schizophrenia.
View ArticleScience News » Introduction to RDoC
Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D., director, NIMH Division of Translational Research and Treatment Development, discusses the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, which he coordinates.
View ArticleScience News » New Data Reveal Extent of Genetic Overlap Between Major Mental...
The largest genome-wide study of its kind has determined how much five major mental illnesses are traceable to the same common inherited genetic variations.
View ArticleBlog Post » Healing Invisible Wounds: An Action Plan
In his blog, Dr. Insel talks about the National Research Action Plan, an effort announced by President Obama aimed at improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health conditions and...
View ArticleScience News » President Obama’s Executive Order Leads to National Research...
President Obama announced the National Research Action Plan (NRAP)—a comprehensive approach to improve our understanding and treatment of mental health problems affecting veterans, service members, and...
View ArticleBlog Post » Infantile Amnesia
Dr. Insel describes how insights from research into why we do not retain memories from the first four years of life may help shed light on many aspects of memory.
View ArticleScience News » Our New Search Engine Delivers Faster, Better Results
Our New Search Engine Delivers Faster, Better Results
View ArticleScience News » The More Hemispheric Lateralization, the Better Thinking...
Scans of resting human brain activity reveal a secret to how it enhances our thinking prowess. It turns out that the left brain’s forte (e.g., language and fine motor skill) and the right brain’s...
View ArticleBlog Post » Antipsychotics: Taking the Long View
Antipsychotics help people through the crisis of acute psychosis, but the long-term management of chronic mental illness is another matter. It appears that what we currently call “schizophrenia” may...
View ArticleScience News » Webinar on Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia with NIMH’s Judith L....
Register for a webinar on September 9 featuring NIMH scientist Dr. Judith Rapoport, who will discuss brain development in childhood and adolescence and childhood-onset schizophrenia.
View ArticleScience News » Jane Pearson Talks About Suicide Prevention Research on NPR’s...
NIMH scientist Dr. Jane Pearson appeared on NPR’s Science Friday to discuss the latest findings in suicide prevention research.
View ArticleScience News » NIMH Twitter Chat on Suicide Prevention
To commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, 2013, NIMH will host a twitter chat on the topic.
View ArticleBlog Post » Accessing and Assessing Science: From PLOS to DORA
In his blog, Dr. Insel discusses the challenge of assessing the quality of scientific research in a new era of open access publishing.
View ArticleBlog Post » In Vitro Veritas?
With more than 100 common gene variants recently implicated in schizophrenia and autism, the problem now is to pinpoint how they might change brain circuits. A promising new tool is a sort of budding...
View ArticleScience News » Jay Giedd on PBS Documentary “Brains on Trial”
NIMH’s Jay Giedd discusses brain scan research with Alan Alda in the two-episode PBS documentary “Brains on Trial.”
View ArticleScience News » Science/AAAS Google+ Hangout on the Adolescent Brain Featuring...
NIMH scientist Jay Giedd, M.D. discusses the teen brain with Science/AAAS in a Google+ Hangout.
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