The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $588,063 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, supports a collaborative research project to examine disparities in emotional resilience and mental health among mothers and their children facing high psychosocial stress. The research employs biocultural and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $648,655 in funding to Miami University to investigate how childhood experiences, such as maltreatment and parenting quality, predict daily emotional reactivity to stress in adulthood. The research aims to inform the design of interventions to help people respond constructively to daily stress. The project builds on the long-running Minnesota Longitudinal...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $119,411 to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, to study the role of grandparental support in prenatal stress and infant socioemotional outcomes. The project aims to: 1) characterize patterns of grandparental involvement during pregnancy and postpartum; 2) investigate how...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $304,240 to Haverford College to conduct research on the relationship between early-life stress and emotional regulation. The project aims to examine how adverse childhood experiences impact a neural marker of emotional reactivity, the late positive potential (LPP), in young adults. The research involves three related studies testing the ability...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will provide $157,000.00 to Michigan State University to conduct research on the psychobiological mediators linking pregnancy stress, maternal mental health, and maternal sensitivity. The key objectives of the 2-year project are to: 1) determine the trajectories of maternal mental health symptoms (e.g.,...
This Project Grant award of $175,647, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to investigate biobehavioral markers of prenatal resilience associated with positive postpartum maternal mental health and well-being. The award recipient, the University of Pittsburgh, will conduct longitudinal research to examine how positive childhood experiences and prenatal biobehavioral resilience, such as higher heart rate...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under CFDA Program 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training, provides $183,750 to support a study on the relationship between childhood adversity, affective skills, and stress vulnerability in adolescents. The project aims to investigate how dimensions of deprivation and threat in childhood impact interoceptive accuracy and emotional granularity, and how these affective skills influence mental...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $340,109 Project Grant to the University of Houston System to conduct a mixed-methods study on the social and policy determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S. This project falls under NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, which supports basic research and education to promote the scientific strength and welfare of the nation. The researchers will first...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a $177,833 research study at Wayne State University to investigate the intergenerational impact of maternal childhood trauma on children's fear neurobiology and internalizing psychopathology risk. The 1-year study will enroll 120 Black American mother-child dyads to assess the relationship between maternal trauma history, PTSD symptoms, children's...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program) provides $127,722 to Teachers College, Columbia University to conduct research on the associations among maternal stress, infant epigenetics, and behavioral and cognitive development in early childhood. The study aims to: 1) examine longitudinal, stress-related changes in epigenetic aging across early childhood; 2) assess the...