Research Highlights about Brain Anatomy and Physiology
- COVID-19 Pandemic Associated With Worse Mental Health and Accelerated Brain Development in Adolescents
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An NIMH-supported study suggests that adolescents living through the COVID-19 pandemic may be experiencing more anxiety and depression symptoms and accelerated brain aging.
- NIMH Creates Publicly Accessible Resource With Data From Healthy Volunteers
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The NIMH Healthy Research Volunteer Study aims to build a comprehensive, publicly accessible resource with a range of brain and behavioral data from healthy volunteers.
- Personalizing Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
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A recent NIMH-supported study investigated whether deep brain stimulation could be personalized for individuals with treatment-resistant depression.
- Mapping ‘Imbalance’ in Brain Anatomy Across the Lifespan
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Researchers in the NIMH Intramural Research Program have developed a new way to measure the degree to which the proportions of an individual person’s brain differ from the proportions typically seen in the broader population. This technique yields new insights into brain development and offers tools for further study.
- Brain Processes Underlying the Extinction and Reactivation of Fear Memories
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In a study published in 2019 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health investigated the neurobiological changes that occur in the brain circuits of mice when contextual fear memories — fear of a place where an aversive event occurred — are formed and extinguished.
