News and Multimedia Featuring IRP
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Researchers Find Order in the Language of the Brain• Research HighlightNew research supported by NIMH used mathematical approaches to explain how neurons in the brain communicate over time to support information processing.
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Youth Suicide Rates Increased During the COVID-19 Pandemic• Research HighlightIn one of the first studies to examine national youth suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers showed that the pandemic increased youth suicide rates and the impact varied by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.
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Facebook Live: Understanding Schizophrenia• VideoIn recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, NIMH conducted a Facebook Live on schizophrenia.
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Facebook Live: Bipolar Disorder in Adults• VideoIn recognition of World Bipolar Day, NIMH experts conducted a Facebook Live event on bipolar disorder in adults.
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Taylor Drazan, Winner of the 2022 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoTaylor Drazan Taylor Drazan discusses the role that pregnancy plays in brain alterations, hormone levels, and behavior in the Common marmoset. Topics: Women’s mental health
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Abby Vogeley, Winner of the 2022 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoAbby Vogeley discusses the long-term observation of participants with treatment resistant mood disorders to understand their current treatment utilization and symptom severity. Topics: depression
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Lanie Bachmann, Winner of the 2022 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoLanie Bachmann discusses how different emotional expressions capture your attention and whether anxiety may act as a modulating factor through an online visual search experiment. Topics: Anxiety
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NIMH Creates Publicly Accessible Resource With Data From Healthy Volunteers• Research HighlightThe NIMH Healthy Research Volunteer Study aims to build a comprehensive, publicly accessible resource with a range of brain and behavioral data from healthy volunteers.
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Dr. Elisabeth Murray Honored With Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award• Institute UpdateDr. Elisabeth A. Murray has been honored with the 2022 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Neuroscience recognizing her distinguished career in biomedical research and dedication to mentoring future leaders in neuroscience.
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Facebook Live: The Intersection of Suicide and Substance Use• VideoIn recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month in September, NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse co-hosted a Facebook Live event on the intersection of suicide and substance use.
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A Clinical Pathway for Suicide Risk Screening in Adult Primary Care• Research HighlightAn NIMH-supported workgroup developed an evidence-based screening pathway to help primary care doctors identify adults at risk of suicide and bridge them to critical mental health services.
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Facebook Live: The Youth Mental Health Crisis• VideoNIMH Deputy Director Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D., led a discussion on youth suicide, the effects of technology and the pandemic on the developing brain, and what the research says about supporting the mental health of current and future generations of youth.
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Facebook Live Event: The Menopause Transition and Depression• VideoNIMH experts discussed the signs, symptoms, treatments, and latest research on the menopause transition and depression.
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Get to Know Your Brain• VideoYour brain is an incredible and complex organ! It helps you think, learn, create, and feel emotions, and it controls every blink, breath, and heartbeat. Learn more about the parts of the brain and what each area helps control.
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What is informed consent?• VideoThis video explains what informed consent means in clinical trials participation.
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Understanding the Characteristics of Suicide in Young Children• Research HighlightResearchers supported by NIMH recently published a study describing the characteristics of suicide in young children and the factors that sometimes precede these tragic events, providing an avenue for future research and intervention.
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Severe Irritability• VideoNIMH is researching why some children have extreme irritability in response to reasonable requests and life events.
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Anna E. Ordóñez Named Director of NIMH’s Office of Clinical Research• Institute UpdateNIMH has selected Anna E. Ordóñez, M.D., M.A.S., as director of the Office of Clinical Research (OCR).
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The View of the NIMH Intramural Program From the Top: An Interview with Dr. Susan Amara• AudioDr. Peter Bandettini and Dr. Susan Amara discuss how advantages of the Intramural Research Program such as flexibility, diversity, and collaboration have led to major discoveries in mental health research.
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What are the risks and benefits of participating in clinical research?• VideoThis video will tell you about the risks and benefits of participating in clinical research.
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Guided Visualization: Dealing with Stress• VideoWe will talk about how stress affects the brain. We will talk a little bit about the brain, how stress affects the brain, and then we will practice a technique that can help you to feel a little bit more relaxed and calm when you are feeling stressed out.
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Getting to Know Your Brain: Dealing with Stress• VideoWe will be talking about what stress and anxiety are, where they come from, and different ways of coping with them. We will also talk about how the brain works in teenagers and why this is such an important time of development.
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What are the different types of clinical research?• VideoThis video will tell you about the different types of clinical research.
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Study Identifies Risk Factors for Elevated Anxiety in Young Adults During COVID-19 Pandemic• Press ReleaseA new study has identified early risk factors that predicted heightened anxiety in young adults during the coronavirus pandemic.
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What is an MRI?• VideoThis video gives an example of what may happen during an MRI for research purposes.
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What is Clinical Research?• VideoThis video will give you a better understanding of what clinical research is.
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Gene Readouts Contribute To Distinctness of Mental Disorders• Press ReleaseA new study conducted by researchers at NIMH suggests that differences in the expression of gene transcripts – readouts copied from DNA that help maintain and build our cells – may hold the key to understanding how mental disorders with shared genetic risk factors result in different patterns of onset, symptoms, course of illness, and treatment responses.
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Alyssa Luz-Ricca, Winner of the 2021 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoAlyssa Luz-Ricca explores abnormalities in reward processing to better understand the dysregulation of reward processing that occurs in certain psychological disorders.
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Alison Bashford, Winner of the 2021 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoAlison Bashford discusses how non-photic cues such as stress affect the circadian rhythm and therefore mental and physical health.
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Malcolm Udeozor, Winner of the 2021 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoMalcolm Udeozor explores whether hand movements, like eye movements, are actually an inherent part of our memory that guide our recall of perceptual experiences.
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Lysianne Beynel, Winner of the 2021 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoLysianne Beynel discusses how to overcome the depth limitation of transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, to modulate amygdala activity.
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Nathan Lowry, Winner of the 2021 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoNathan Lowry discusses the relationship between a lifetime history of non-suicidal self-injury and suicide risk among an adult medical inpatient population.
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Gabrielle Michel, Winner of the 2021 Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoGabrielle Michel explores whether cardiovascular disease genetics predict aggression-related behaviors in people with schizophrenia.
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NIMH’s Carlos Zarate Jr., M.D., Elected to National Academy of Medicine• Institute UpdateCarlos Zarate Jr., M.D., chief of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch within the NIMH Intramural Research Program, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Dr. Robert Savoy: fMRI Master Educator• Audio
Dr. Peter Bandettini interviews Dr. Robert Savoy from Harvard Medical School about his experiences training thousands worldwide in the use of Functional Brain Imaging.
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Study Shows Highly Reproducible Sex Differences in Aspects of Human Brain Anatomy• Press ReleaseA scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible sex differences in the volume of certain regions in the human brain.
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Outdoor Light Linked with Teens’ Sleep and Mental Health• Press ReleaseA large-scale study of U.S. teens shows associations between outdoor, artificial light at night and health outcomes.
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Bruce Luber: TMS Parameters and Protocols• VideoDr. Bruce Luber, a staff scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, provides an overview of the basic parameters of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and different protocols that are being used to research the effects of TMS.
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Zhen Ni: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Cortical Anatomy and Clinical Neurophysiology• VideoDr. Zhen Ni, a research fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, discusses how the response to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be recorded, how spinal cord activity can be tested, how motor cortical stimulation with TMS is performed, and how stimulation outside of the motor cortex is achieved.
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Zhi-De Deng: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Physics, Devices, and Modeling• VideoDr. Zhi-De Deng, Director of the Computational Neurostimulation Research Program within the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses the physics, devices, and modeling of transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Sarah H. Lisanby: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Safety and Risk• VideoDr. Sarah Lisanby, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, discusses the safety and risk of transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Sarah H. Lisanby: Introduction to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation• VideoDr. Sarah Lisanby, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, describes the purpose of a series of training videos on transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Infant Temperament Predicts Personality More Than 20 Years Later• Press ReleaseResearchers 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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Introduction to the MRI Scanner• Video
This video describes what it’s like to have an MRI as part of your research study.
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Dr. Laura Lewis: Pushing fMRI into New Realms• Audio
Dr. Peter Bandettini sits down with Dr. Laura Lewis, an NIMH-supported researcher at Boston University, to discuss her groundbreaking work using fMRI to study the importance of sleep for the brain.
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Join a Study - Depression, TMS, Psychotherapy and Brain Function• VideoThis video describes a National Institute of Mental Health study of talk therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of depression symptoms. Researchers are currently looking for adults ages 18-65 with major depression to participate in this inpatient or outpatient research study that has daily visits for 8 weeks, and then once-monthly visits for 3 months.
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NIMH Scientific Director Susan Amara Selected as AAAS President-Elect• Institute UpdateSusan Amara, Ph.D., scientific director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been selected to serve as president-elect of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Jessica Gerner, Winner of the 2020 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoJessica Gerner discusses modifying the Ecological Momentary Assessment to further explore the link between sleep disturbances and suicidal ideation so that individuals and providers are better able to identify when an individual is most at risk.
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Riya Dange, Winner of the 2020 Three-Minute Talks Competition• VideoRiya Dange explores the intersection of genetics and neural biology to show that polygenic risk for anxiety and depression modulates in selectivity differently based on schizophrenia diagnosis. This may help providers detect these symptoms earlier in patients with schizophrenia they can seek out and develop personalized treatment strategies.
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Dr. Christopher Baker: How does the brain categorize the visual world and change with learning? (NIMH Podcast)• Audio
Dr. Christopher Baker, a vision neuroscientist at NIMH, discusses research on how the brain organizes visual input, and how the brain changes with learning.
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Side Effects Mild, Brief with Single Antidepressant Dose of Intravenous Ketamine• Press ReleaseA single, low-dose ketamine infusion was relatively free of side effects for patients with treatment-resistant depression.
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Discover NIMH: Drug Discovery and Development• VideoOne of the most exciting recent breakthroughs from research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the development of a fast-acting medication for treatment-resistant depression based on ketamine. This treatment is bringing new hope to people and families affected by major depression.
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Study Reveals Sex-Based Differences in the Development of Brain Hubs Involved in Memory and Emotion• Press ReleaseResearchers have uncovered sex-based differences in the development of the hippocampus and amygdala—brain areas that have been implicated in the biology of several mental disorders that impact males and females differently.
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Laura Padilla, Ph.D., Winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• Video
Laura Padilla, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition, presents her three minute talk on reward related functional connectivity wth nucleus accumbens changes across puberty. Her study will attempt to disentangle the roles of age, puberty stage, and hormonal events of puberty in the development of reward processing.
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Elisa Dumett, Ph.D., Winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition• Video
Elisa Dumett Torres, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition, presents her three minute talk on viewing hippocampal functional coupling through the lens of environmental factor of urbanicity and the genetic factor BDNF. Her study provides a template for exploring the effects of gene environment interactions for general brain function and how this might be altered in psychiatric illness.
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Dr. Niko Kriegeskorte: How can computer models help us better understand the brain? (NIMH Podcast)• Audio
Dr. Niko Kriegeskorte, a computational neuroscientist from the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University, discusses the challenges of deriving insight into the principles of brain function using fMRI and other neuroimaging methods.
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Webinar for Nurses - How to Use the ASQ to Detect Patients at Risk for Suicide• VideoIn this webinar, Dr. Lisa Horowitz reviews how to conducts suicide risk screening with the ASQ tool. This training is for nurses.
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Suicide Risk Screening Training: How to Manage Patients at Risk for Suicide• VideoSuicide Risk Screening Training for Mental Health Clinicians: How to Manage Patients at Risk for Suicide by Lisa M. Horowitz, Ph.D., MPH, Office of the Clinical Director, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health
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Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates• Press ReleaseA study conducted by researchers at several universities, hospitals, and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) found that the Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” was associated with a 28.9% increase in suicide rates among U.S. youth ages 10-17 in the month (April 2017) following the shows release, after accounting for ongoing trends in suicide rates.
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Autism in Adults• Audio
Over the last twenty years, research has helped us better understand autism in adults. In a podcast, NIMH Director Dr. Joshua Gordon interviews Dr. Ann Wagner, National Autism Coordinator, and Dr. Lisa Gilotty, chief of NIMH’s Research Program on Autism Spectrum Disorders, to discuss these research advances.
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Bench-to-Bedside: NIMH Research Leading to Brexanolone, First-Ever Drug Specifically for Postpartum Depression• Media AdvisoryFDA approval of the postpartum depression treatment brexanolone represents the final phase of a bench-to-bedside journey for this drug — a journey that began in the NIMH Intramural Research Program. NIMH experts are available to provide information on postpartum depression and the importance of, and the science underlying, this new drug.
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NIH Study Reveals Differences in Brain Activity in Children with Anhedonia• Press ReleaseResearchers have identified changes in brain connectivity and brain activity during rest and reward anticipation in children with anhedonia, a condition where people lose interest and pleasure in activities they used to enjoy.
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NIH Study Shows Many Preteens Screen Positive for Suicide Risk During ER Visits• Press ReleaseA research team found nearly one-third of youth ages 10 to 12 years screened positive for suicide risk in emergency department settings, including those seeking help for physical concerns only.
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Putting behavior into context: how neuromodulators and flies can help• VideoThis is a cat video unlike any other you’ve seen. This video is about a completely ordinary cat that led to extraordinary places –and may even lead to answers about mental illnesses. We don’t know yet. But this cat’s story is definitely about discovery and purpose and meaning.
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Join a Research Study• VideoResearchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) conduct a large number of research studies with patients and healthy volunteers.
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Join a Research Study• VideoResearchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) conduct a large number of research studies with patients and healthy volunteers.
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Teen Depression Study - 1• VideoNIMH conducts research studies to understand the causes of depression, the teen brain, and evaluate new treatments. Studies enroll participants, ages 11-17, for research assessments, brain scans, talk therapy or other standard treatments.
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Teen Depression Study - 3• VideoNIMH conducts research studies to understand the causes of depression, the teen brain, and evaluate new treatments. Studies enroll participants, ages 11-17.
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Teen Depression Study - 2• VideoNIMH conducts research studies to understand the causes of depression, the teen brain, and evaluate new treatments. Studies enroll participants, ages 11-17.