This $250,200 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA Program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, is supporting a qualitative research study exploring the life experiences and perceptions of social connectedness among adult women aging with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in institutionalized settings. The University of Texas at Austin is the prime awardee, conducting homogeneous purposive sampling and qualitative analysis of interviews to...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $802,423 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to conduct a psychometric evaluation and validation study of a comprehensive Social Cognition Battery for use in populations at clinical high risk for psychosis.
The project aims to identify sound measures of social cognition that are suitable for use in adolescent and young adult populations at high risk for psychosis. The...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $801,869 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to study the impact of maternal depression on the development of positive valence systems and internalizing symptoms in early childhood. The five-year study, starting on September 1, 2024, will use a multimodal, accelerated longitudinal design to chart trajectories of positive valence...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants provides $994,397 to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial examining the use of an executive functioning intervention called "Unstuck and on Target" in community mental health settings. The primary goal is to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of this autism-focused cognitive-behavioral intervention, as compared to a...
This $811,056 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will support research on the impact of societal stressors and adaptive factors on mental health trajectories for a diverse sample of Latinx youth from early childhood through young adulthood. The research will examine how distal societal stressors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-immigrant rhetoric, and proximal stressors, like families'...
This $704,095 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a 5-year study on the interplay between social media use and mental health in early adolescence. The lead institution is the University of California, Irvine.
The research project aims to (1) advance discovery on the bi-directional influences between social media engagement and mental health symptoms, (2) experimentally test whether...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $776,444 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to identify unique neural and inflammatory mechanisms of depression in people living with HIV. The 5-year research project, which began on September 1, 2024, aims to elucidate how HIV status, inflammation, and depression interact with critical brain networks to uncover potential biomarkers and treatment targets....
This $367,708 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research on the neural underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The University of Southern California (USC) will use cutting-edge functional MRI techniques and advanced machine learning methods to investigate how connectivity patterns in the brain's reward circuitry differ...
This federal Project Grant award of $668,532, granted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), supports the "Socioecological Study of Autism, Suicide Risk, and Mental Health Care: Multilevel Analyses and Community Consultation for Suicide Prevention" project (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants). The award aims to:
Identify socioecological factors associated with suicide risk among autistic youth and adults using national healthcare claims data.
Evaluate...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $255,855 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. The grant, effective August 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support the adaptation and evaluation of the Nuestras Familias online program, an evidence-based intervention for improving mental health outcomes among Latino youth and families. Specifically, the project aims to: 1) adapt Nuestras...