Director’s Messages

Dr. Gordon relates highlights of summer scientific meetings.

In the second of two director’s messages on RDoC, Dr. Gordon talks about the role of computational psychiatry in the effort to understand the brain processes underlying behavior and mental disorders.

In the first of two messages, Dr. Gordon shares his thoughts on NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), and discusses how we might be able to use big data approaches to enhance this research framework in the future.

In the second of two messages for Autism Awareness Month, Dr. Gordon talks about NIMH funding of research aimed at developing interventions and services for people across the lifespan with autism spectrum disorder.

Dr. Gordon discusses research aimed at identifying the causes of autism spectrum disorder including findings emerging from studies of genetic factors.

Dr. Gordon talks about NIMH’s commitment to support the development and testing of psychosocial interventions in the greater context of the experimental therapeutics approach to treatment research.

Dr. Gordon explains how computational and theoretical neuroscience can advance research into mental disorders.

Dr. Gordon talks about the potential pay-offs of research on neural circuits and next steps for going forward.

The Push for Suicide Prevention.

Dr. Gordon talks about his plans for his first year as NIMH director and his priorities for research.