Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC23M0129

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital a $392,500 project grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct research characterizing the role of sleep brain dynamics in the emergence of depression in adolescents. The project, spanning from May 1, 2025, to April 30, 2027, will investigate biological markers of depression onset in high-risk adolescent...

Federal Project Grant Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant of $1,522,605 to Stony Brook University, with performance initiated May 1, 2025 and completion targeted for March 31, 2030, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). This mechanistic clinical trial investigates the role of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) in the antidepressant mechanism of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). The research...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Rutgers, The State University. The $469,159 grant, with a start date of Sep 11, 2024 and an end date of Sep 10, 2026, will fund a research study examining the bidirectional relationships between positive and negative social media use and suicidal ideation among high-risk adolescents. The study will use intensive monitoring approaches, including smartphone...

Summary: Neurophysiological Correlates of Cognition Over Multi-Day Timescales in Epilepsy The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital $234,630 on August 1, 2025, under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853) to conduct a five-year prospective research study examining the neurophysiological basis of cognitive impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The research...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), awarded $931,568 to the University of California, Irvine on August 1, 2025, for a five-year research project extending through May 31, 2030. This investigator-initiated research project identifies environmental factors contributing to rising mental-emotional-behavioral (MEB) disorders in urban-dwelling children and maternal postpartum...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the federal Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a research project titled "RISK PATHWAYS TO MAJOR DEPRESSION: INTEGRATING GENETIC-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, DEVELOPMENTAL, AND MOLECULAR GENETIC STRATEGIES IN DANISH AND SWEDISH NATIONAL REGISTERS." The $593,104 award, with a project period from May 1, 2025 to February 28, 2030, seeks to advance the understanding of the etiology of major...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $403,937 to Merrimack College to study the impact of mid-day napping on emotion regulation in individuals who have recently sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The 3-year project aims to examine the preliminary efficacy of a mid-day nap in improving emotion regulation and altering top-down neural control of emotion regulation in this...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $201,852 to support a 5-year study on the relationship between ambulatory glucose regulation and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) among adult psychiatric inpatients. The study aims to examine whether passively collected glucose metrics can prospectively predict proximal suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, and affective-cognitive risk...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $626,753 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct a pilot study on risk and protective factors for common mental disorders among migrant and asylum-seeking populations in Mexico. The 3-year project aims to 1) identify risk and protective factors for common mental disorders, 2) estimate the short-term effects of economic...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded the University of Pittsburgh a $792,006 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a longitudinal study examining suicidality in autistic adults. Beginning September 1, 2025, and extending through June 30, 2030, the research will enroll 250 autistic adults (ages 18-40) to investigate the relationship between social adversity, trauma, protective factors, and suicidal...