This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop person-centered outcome measures for assessing the quality of goal-directed care for individuals with serious mental illnesses. The $639,417 award will support a project conducted by researchers from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the RAND Corporation, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal is to collect...
This federal Project Grant award of $802,551 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a 5-year mixed-methods research study on the impacts of increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates for mental health services. The study aims to 1) assess how such rate increases affect provider participation and patient health outcomes, and 2) understand the factors that influence the effectiveness of these policy changes....
The $447,164 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under its Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports the development of a new personalized quality of life (QoL) measurement approach for mental health (MH) conditions. The project aims to create a measurement tool that is both nomothetically comparable across disease conditions and ideographically tailored to MH phenomenology, addressing limitations of current QoL measures. This...
This $3,093,740 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support the development of an open-access multimodal dataset on schizophrenia. The 5-year award, running from July 2024 to February 2029, will leverage the ongoing Rockland Sample II (NKI-RSII) study to collect and share extensive neuroimaging, neurophysiological, physiological, and behavioral data from a community-based lifespan...
This federal Project Grant award of $700,708.00, granted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a study titled "Online and Offline Multiverse Spillover: Mapping the Ecology of Youth Mental Health". The project, with an award date of September 10, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2029, aims to leverage multiple data streams (survey, ecological momentary assessment, and passive digital...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $4,170,401 Cooperative Agreement (Grant ID U01MH136535) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The goal of the "Phenotypes Reimagined to Define Clinical Treatment and Outcome Research (PREDICTOR)" project is to develop individualized clinical signatures to predict key mental health outcomes like treatment disengagement, ER visits, and hospitalizations. The...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $2,139,997 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Washington. The grant, awarded on July 2, 2024, will fund a study to examine the extent of integrated behavioral health services at community health centers (CHCs) and how integration impacts access, quality, and health spending for Medicaid enrollees with mental illness. The research team will conduct a national survey of CHCs...
This $702,928 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to conduct secondary data analyses integrating multi-organ imaging data, psychiatric genetic studies, and functional genomic resources. The key objectives are to: 1) understand the genetic co-architecture of psychiatric disorders and multi-organ imaging phenotypes, 2) link imaging data to the functional landscape of psychiatric disorders to...
This federal Project Grant award of $3,155,102 from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) aims to assemble a large global consortium to evaluate the social determinants of mental health outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, titled "International Evaluation of Modifiable Social Determinants of Health on COVID-Related Mental Health Outcomes," will integrate longitudinal data from 23 international cohorts comprising...
The federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to determine the contribution of the rostral region of the posterior hypothalamic nucleus (RPH) in stress adaptation. The $590,788 award, effective from Apr 17, 2024 to Mar 31, 2026, will enable researchers at the University of Colorado to evaluate the role of the RPH in the acquisition of stress habituation and explore how intrinsic RPH neural...