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Learn about the progress NIMH has made toward Goal 2 of the NIMH Strategic Plan for Research: Examine Mental Illness Trajectories Across the Lifespan.

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  Infant Temperament Predicts Personality More Than 20 Years Later

  Researchers investigating how temperament shapes adult life-course outcomes have found that behavioral inhibition in infancy predicts a reserved, introverted personality at age 26 and for some, a risk of internalizing psychopathology such as anxiety and depression.

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  Using Technology to Help Predict Binge and Purge Episodes in People with Eating Disorders

  In binge-eating disorder and bulimia nervosa, people experience recurrent and frequent episodes in which they eat unusually large amounts of food and feel a sense of loss of control.

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