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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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  Study Identifies Risk Factors for Elevated Anxiety in Young Adults During COVID-19 Pandemic

  A new study has identified early risk factors that predicted heightened anxiety in young adults during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  NIMH Part of Collaborative Effort to Advance Early Intervention for Individuals at Risk of Developing Schizophrenia

  NIMH has joined with other NIH Institutes in launching an new Accelerating Medicines Partnership focused on advancing the development of better ways to identify and treat those at clinical high risk for psychosis.

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  Outdoor Light Linked with Teens’ Sleep and Mental Health

  A large-scale study of U.S. teens shows associations between outdoor, artificial light at night and health outcomes.

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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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