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Seasonal Affective Disorder

Learn more about a type of depression that can come and go with the seasons.

NIH BRAIN Initiative

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its third round of grants to support the goals of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

New Research Supporting Zero Suicide

NIMH has funded 3 projects focusing on suicide prevention in health care settings.

Dr. Joshua Gordon Joins NIMH

In September, Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., from Columbia University, joined the institute as director of the NIMH.

Webinar Series

Watch the archived webinars from the 2016 Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health series, which focused on training, research, and methodology.

Brain Social Fear Circuitry Disentangled
November 30, 2016
Unlocking the Brain’s Genetic Code
November 17, 2016
NIMH’s Francis McMahon, M.D., Awarded Colvin Prize
November 1, 2016
RDoC Unit to Co-host Webinar Series
October 31, 2016

Karen Berman, M.D. elected to National Academy of Medicine
October 31, 2016
NIMH-Funded Study to Track the Effects of Trauma
October 17, 2016
BRAIN Initiative 2016
October 13, 2016
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Joshua Gordon — NIMH Director

Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the NIMH, the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders.

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screenshot form video titled Mental Illness in Stressful Times – An Asian American Family’s Story

“An NIH/NIMH lifer” reveals how his Asian American family successfully coped with severe mental illness compounded by discrimination.

Join A Research Study

Clinical Research Studies (Clinical Trials) are of primary importance to the NIMH mission.

View a list of current NIMH-IRP Mental Health Research Studies
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Find a list of all clinical trials funded by NIMH

Principal Investigators at NIMH

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders and of the Emotion and Development Branch at the NIMH Intramural Research Program. Dr. Leibenluft received her B.A. from Yale University summa cum laude and her M.D. from Stanford University.

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David Leopold

Dr. Leopold attained a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1991. After receiving his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine in 1997, he conducted postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.

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Zheng Li, PHD

Dr. Zheng Li received a Ph.D. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The research interest of Dr. Zheng Li is the molecular and cellular mechanisms of synapse development and plasticity in normal and schizophrenic brains.

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