Project Grant R01MH114028

This Project Grant award of $188,623.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research examining the role of peer interaction in influencing anger regulation and hostile attributions among adolescents. The project aims to advance understanding of how individual and interpersonal factors predict changes in youth aggression. The research team conducts observations of conversations between friend dyads over one year and collects survey...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $816,063 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the neural mechanisms underlying how social stimuli elicit motivated behavior. The key focus of the research is to understand how neural representations of social rank information, such as dominant and submissive social cues, converge onto brain...

This $906,000 three-year project grant from the National Institute of Mental Health will support research examining emotion regulation processes in social anxiety from interpersonal and observational perspectives. The grant funds a study at Ohio University aimed at delineating the interpersonal processes that predict social anxiety. Specifically, the project will recruit 140 friend dyads exhibiting a range of social anxiety symptoms to participate in lab sessions and two-week diary studies. In...

This federal Project Grant award of $592,831, awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports research to understand the neural circuit mechanisms linking early life trauma to impulsive aggression. The primary goal is to characterize the role of the thalamic nucleus reuniens (RE) and its projections to the ventral hippocampus in mediating the maladaptive effects of early life trauma on aggressive behaviors. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the federal Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $193,336 to the University of Rochester to investigate risk mechanisms underlying the association between callous-unemotional traits and externalizing behavior in children. The key objectives of this 20-month project are to examine three potential mediating factors - children's emotion-biased attentional processes, emotion understanding,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $185,625.00 to study the neural mechanisms underlying socially transmitted aggression in mice. The research aims to investigate how familiarity between mice influences the activation and plasticity of the medial amygdala (MEAPV) to ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHVL) pathway, which is hypothesized to drive socially learned aggressive behaviors. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants program, provides $790,712 to the University of Pittsburgh to study the impact of maternal socialization of positive emotion on child neural reward response. The research aims to characterize the mechanisms by which maternal encouragement of child positive emotion leads to changes in child reward-related brain function during the preschool years. The study will...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into how emotions are encoded in the brain during narrative listening. The project aims to investigate the representations of affect (valence and arousal) across brain regions and frequencies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) data collected from a large, diverse sample of adults aged...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) provides $727,895 to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to conduct research on the alternative neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating aggression. The 5-year project aims to investigate how the pineal hormone melatonin orchestrates increased aggressive behavior in males and females through actions on adrenal DHEA, its conversion to bioactive...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop and evaluate a virtual reality (VR) mindfulness-based intervention (MBI VR) for reducing impulsive aggression in individuals with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. The total award of $656,078 spans from July 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027. The key objectives are to determine the optimal dosing paradigm for increasing dorsomedial...