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Major NIMH Research Project to Test Approaches to Altering the Course of Schizophrenia
Recovery Act Funds Will Support First Phase of Project The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is launching a large-scale research project to explore whether using early and aggressive treatment, individually targeted and integrating a variety of different therapeutic approaches, will reduce the symptoms and prevent the gradual deterioration of functioning that is characteristic of [...]
Evidence-Based Prevention is Goal of Largest Ever Study of Suicide in the Military
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has announced that an interdisciplinary team of four research institutions will carry out the largest study of suicide and mental health among military personnel ever undertaken, with $50 million in funding from the U.S. Army. Study investigators aim to move quickly to identify risk and protective factors for [...]
NIH Launches the Human Connectome Project to Unravel the Brain’s Connections
The National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is launching a $30 million project that will use cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to map the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain. By systematically collecting brain imaging data from hundreds of subjects, the Human Connectome Project (HCP) will yield insight into how brain connections underlie [...]
Brain Emotion Circuit Sparks as Teen Girls Size Up Peers
What is going on in teenagers’ brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys. The study by Daniel Pine, M.D., of the National Institute of Mental [...]
PEOPLE SOMETIMES SEEK THE TRUTH, BUT MOST PREFER LIKE-MINDED VIEWS
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see or hear. New analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear. The study found that while people tend to avoid information that contradicts what they already [...]
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
Chromosomal Hotspot of Immunity/Gene Expression Regulation Implicated A trio of genome-wide studies – collectively the largest to date – has pinpointed a vast array of genetic variation that cumulatively may account for at least one third of the genetic risk for schizophrenia. One of the studies traced schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in part, to the [...]