This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will support a $801,869 study to chart trajectories of positive valence systems function across early childhood in offspring of mothers with and without depression histories. The 5-year project, awarded on September 1, 2024, aims to identify risk and protective factors that moderate the effects of maternal depression on the development of positive valence...
This federal Project Grant award of $418,178 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to provide mechanistic insights into the neurobiological mechanisms by which maternal sensitivity is compromised by postpartum depression. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will use intersectional viral...
This federal Project Grant award of $235,500.00 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 support research to characterize infants' real-world exposure to emotion information from 6 to 17 months of age. The primary objectives are to describe infants' exposure to emotional facial expressions and caregiver emotion language, as well as examine how these elements appear...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is providing $249,000.00 to investigate the neurobiological, genetic, and environmental factors that determine vulnerability or resilience to depression in children at high family risk. The primary objectives are to: 1) examine if findings from rodent models of intergenerational distress translate to humans at risk for psychopathology, 2)...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $176,638 to The Washington University to investigate how unpredictable parent behavior during infancy impacts the development of emotion regulation and brain function in children. The research will study the relationship between inconsistent nurturing behaviors (unpredictable emotional signals) observed in parents when children are 1 year old, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $790,712 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on the relationship between maternal socialization of positive emotion and child neural reward response. The research aims to experimentally test the hypothesis that maternal encouragement of child positive emotion will lead to increases in child neural reward response, as...
This federal Project Grant award of $388,749, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), supports a computational model to investigate how risk factors for anxiety and depression influence the development of emotion processing and regulation brain networks in preschool-aged children. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant include: 1) Characterizing the development of...
This federal 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), provides $131,333 in funding to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the emotional and biobehavioral mechanisms of parent-infant emotional synchrony. The overarching goal is to investigate the origins of social cognition from the lens of parent-infant dyadic...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, is focused on studying the relationship between early parent-infant synchrony and later developmental outcomes in middle childhood for infants at genetic risk for ADHD or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project will leverage longitudinal data from 326 infants recruited through the principal investigator's prior NIMH-funded studies, who have been...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), focuses on characterizing early signs of neurobehavioral dysregulation in infants at increased risk for behavioral disorders. The $197,660 award will leverage integrative data analysis techniques to identify modifiable mechanisms that increase risk for behavior dysregulation in toddlers (K99 aim), and track trajectories and timing of attention,...