Past Meetings and Events

Find summaries and recordings of past NIMH meetings and events. These events explore a range of mental disorders and discuss the latest mental health research.

• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Implementing Radical Healing Strategies to Promote Health Equity
  May 3, 2022
  Virtual
  Helen A. Neville, Ph.D., will provide an overview of the psychology of the radical healing framework.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: How Looking at Genetics and Networks Led to Solving a Quantum Gravity Problem
  April 26, 2022
  Dr. Gates is a theoretical physicist known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He presented on how looking at genetics and networks led to solving a quantum gravity problem.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Beyond FDA Approval: Assessing the Value of New Health Technologies
  March 8, 2022
  Foluso Agboola, MBBS, MPH provided a brief background on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and describe the Value Assessment Framework using their review of esketamine for treatment-resistant depression as an example.
• Mental Health and Older Adults Facebook Live Q&A
  March 1, 2022
  Experts from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration conducted a Q&A on mental health, well-being, and aging. Experts discussed common concerns among older adults and tips to improve overall mental health.
• Stress Less: Healthy Relaxation for #OurHearts Facebook Live Event
  February 25, 2022
  In recognition of American Heart Month, clinical psychologists Laurie Friedman Donze, Ph.D., from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Krystal M. Lewis, Ph.D., from the National Institute of Mental Health discussed stress and heart health by demonstrating ways to reduce stress and bring on your body’s relaxation response.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Cancer Control in the 21st Century with an Emphasis on Risk Reduction
  February 22, 2022
  Dr. Otis Brawley provided an overview of cancer incidence and mortality trends in populations defined by race, socioeconomic status, area of residence.
• Workshop: Nonaffective Psychosis in Midlife and Beyond
  February 9–10, 2022
  NIMH hosted a workshop on nonaffective psychosis in midlife and beyond to share the latest findings, challenges, and opportunities for transformative research in mid to late-life populations.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Addressing Social Determinants to Optimize Infant Brain Development
  January 18, 2022
  Cynthia Rogers, M.D. provided an overview of adverse exposures and their influence on child development, discussing exposure to poverty, crime, and pre-and postnatal exposures to psychopathology and substance use.
• School-based Suicide Prevention: Promising Approaches and Opportunities for Research
  January 14, 2022
  NIMH hosted a webinar for diverse stakeholders, including school administrators, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders, to learn about new and innovative practices in school-based suicide prevention.
• Psychedelics as Therapeutics: Gaps, Challenges and Opportunities
  January 12–13, 2022
  The NIH Workshop on Psychedelics as Therapeutics was conducted by NIMH, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The workshop covered the mechanistic understanding of how different psychedelic compounds act and whether perceptual and therapeutic effects might be separated.