Cooperative Agreement R01MH093501

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Parc Innovations LLC, a woman-owned small business located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The $442,074 grant, awarded on April 16, 2025, will fund the development and initial testing of an automated e-learning platform for therapist training in exposure therapy, a well-established evidence-based practice for anxiety disorders. The project will leverage the research team's...

The National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health awarded New York University $785,637 under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213) from June 2021 through May 2025. This Cooperative Agreement will support the development and pilot testing of telephone-delivered and video-based Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) protocols for patients with migraine headaches and depressive symptoms. Specifically, the...

This $3.787 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health will fund research into the relationship between social isolation, online connectivity, and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the Massachusetts General Hospital researchers will analyze data from the COVID States Project survey of over 260,000 individuals to characterize how disrupted social networks relate to depressed mood among vulnerable subgroups. An innovative...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $135,268 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to leverage large language models and machine learning algorithms to assess depression and anxiety symptoms and risks for patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus. The key objectives of this 4-year project are to: 1) Identify symptomatic issues and care needs for depression and...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $424,754 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Mainsquare Co. (DBA "Teleo") to develop and evaluate their HIPAA-compliant virtual therapy platform for improving engagement and outcomes in pediatric teletherapy. The Teleo platform aims to enhance remote therapy delivery for children by integrating evidence-based therapy tools, worksheets, and interactive features into a single virtual environment. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $199,987 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop and evaluate EMPOWER@HOME, an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy program designed for homebound older adults experiencing depression. The program integrates character-driven storytelling and weekly coaching calls by aging service providers to engage participants and address their mental...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $782,069 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop and evaluate a web-based app called "Catalina: Confronting My Emotions/Enfrentando Mis Emociones." The app uses transmedia storytelling and interactive content to help increase mental health treatment initiation among symptomatic, untreated Latina women. The app features videos, social media...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $976,424 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a behavioral intervention called Resilience Training (RT) for young adults with psychotic experiences. The study aims to evaluate whether RT can reduce psychotic symptoms, anxiety, depression, and suicidality in this population over a...

This U01MH136025 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop predictive models for personalizing digital and clinic-based mental health treatments. The $10,960,536 project, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will recruit 4,400 patients initiating outpatient mental health care and track them through wearable devices and smartphones to collect behavioral data. The...

This Project Grant award of $156,500.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund research at Emory University to identify patients with true treatment failure (TF) for major depressive disorder (MDD). The project aims to distinguish TF from partial response (PR) to first-line therapies like SSRIs, SNRIs, and CBT, in order to enable earlier referral of TF patients to alternative treatments like transcranial...