This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $3,015,000 to Yale University to conduct a 3-year longitudinal study on the predictors and mechanisms of chronic irritability in children ages 8-13. The key objectives are to: (1) identify neural markers that predict chronic irritability trajectories, (2) determine social and environmental factors that influence chronic irritability, and (3) enhance...
This Project Grant award, valued at $235,500.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The funding supports a research project to characterize the emotional environment of infants from 6 to 17 months of age. The key objectives are to describe infants' exposure to emotion information, including facial expressions and emotion language used by caregivers, and...
The federal Project Grant award K23MH136325 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will provide $196,776 to the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, doing business as Bradley Hospital, to conduct research on the effects of ovarian steroids on mood and sleep in adolescent females. The study will characterize hormone sensitivity in 50 female adolescents aged 11-14 years by collecting daily assessments of mood, sleep, and...
This Project Grant award, identified as F32HD115302, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The $241,032 award supports a comprehensive investigation by a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California into the neurophysiological underpinnings of clinically observable sensory reactivity features in infants at varying levels...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $427,625 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct a secondary data analysis study. The study aims to identify the underlying mechanisms by which maternal childhood maltreatment may be related to psychopathology among their offspring during adolescence. The...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $857,216 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to study the neurodevelopmental trajectories leading to early symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged, racially and ethnically diverse children. The key objectives of this project are to: 1)...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $134,568 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund research aimed at understanding the cognitive neural signatures of childhood maltreatment in adolescents. The goal is to advance the science of targeted academic intervention for this vulnerable population. The...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,142,622 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Massachusetts Boston. The purpose of this 3-year grant, with a start date of April 14, 2025, is to better understand the development and capacity of episodic future thinking (EFT) in early childhood. The project aims to quantify the processing capacity of EFT during memory retrieval...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, will support research to investigate how unpredictability in early parental behavior impacts the development of emotion regulation and brain function in children, and their subsequent risk for psychopathology. The $176,638 award, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2030, will be provided to the Washington University in St. Louis to expand upon...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program provides $216,734 to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research on the effects of prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure on childhood irritability and brain connectivity. The award aims to test the hypothesis that prenatal PAH exposure is associated with persistent irritability...
This Project Grant award of $164,516 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund research by Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, a pediatric psychiatric hospital and research institution affiliated with Brown University. The study aims to investigate the developmental trajectories of irritability in youth from early childhood through late adolescence, assess the convergent validity of different methods for measuring irritability, and explore multi-level risk factors for irritability. The research will utilize secondary data from the Kids Markers Study along with a new follow-up survey of caregiver-reported irritability in late adolescence. This innovative study seeks to advance the understanding of the dynamic nature of irritability in order to inform more effective interventions and policies for supporting child and adolescent mental health. The award period is from October 1, 2025.