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…
Posts published in September 2019
NIH announces 10 winners of the “Speaking Up About Mental Health! This Is My Story” national essay challenge, aimed at spurring conversations among youth about mental health and encouraging them to seek support for themselves and others. Source: NIH
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.” This wisdom, often attributed to American historian Daniel Boorstin, suggests a sister aphorism: The great enemy of democracy is not ill will, but the illusion of…
On September 18, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the NIMH Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity (ODWD) is hosting the second webinar in its 2019 series. Dr. Georgina Rippon of the Aston Brain Centre at Aston University in Birmingham,…
In observance of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Dr. Jane Pearson, chair of the Suicide Research Consortium in the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health, will answer questions from the public about the latest…
Mental health research center directors emerged from a recent meeting with a renewed commitment to help each other achieve their common mission – to transform care of children, adolescents and adults with severe psychiatric disorders. Source: NIH