Science News
- NIMH Creates Division of Data Science and Technology
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On October 23, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announced the creation of a new Division of Data Science and Technology (DST).
- Saving Lives Through the Science of Suicide Prevention
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• 75th Anniversary
Evidence-based efforts to improve suicide risk screening, assessment, and intervention are helping to save lives, thanks to research supported by NIMH.
- Emergency Department Intervention Reduces Adult Suicide Risk
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Evidence-based practices for suicide prevention effectively reduced suicidal behaviors among adults seen for care in emergency departments.
- Cracking the Ketamine Code
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• 75th Anniversary
NIMH supported science and NIMH researchers helped pave the way for the development of ketamine—a groundbreaking treatment that has improved the lives of those who are impacted by treatment-resistant depression.
- Helping People With Serious Mental Illness Quit Smoking
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In a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and published in JAMA Psychiatry, Gail Daumit, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University, A. Eden Evins, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues developed a tobacco smoking cessation intervention for people with serious mental illness.
- Scientists Unveil Detailed Cell Maps of the Human Brain and the Nonhuman Primate Brain
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A group of international scientists have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain, allowing for a deeper knowledge of the cellular basis of brain function and dysfunction, helping pave the way for a new generation of precision therapeutics for people with mental disorders and other disorders of the brain.
- NIH Launches Community-Led Research Program to Advance Health Equity
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NIH is funding a first-of-its-kind community-led research program to study ways to address the underlying structural factors within communities that affect health, such as access to safe spaces, healthy food, employment opportunities, transportation, and quality health care.
- Combined, High Maternal Stress and Prenatal COVID-19 Infection May Affect Attention Span in Infants
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Prenatal COVID-19 infection increased the risk for impaired attention and delayed socioemotional and cognitive functioning among infants of mothers who experienced high psychosocial stress during their pregnancy.
- RAISE-ing the Standard of Care for Schizophrenia: The Rapid Adoption of Coordinated Specialty Care in the United States
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• 75th Anniversary
The Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode research initiative, launched by NIMH to test the effectiveness of coordinated specialty care to treat first-episode psychosis, has transformed the mental health landscape in the United States and helped thousands of people with schizophrenia achieve better outcomes.
- Dr. Patricia A. Areán Named New Director of NIMH’s Division of Services and Intervention Research
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Patricia A. Areán, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR).
