Project Grant R01MH139895
- This federal Project Grant award of $196,460 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is supporting research to elucidate the neural substrates underlying novelty-related social investigation behaviors in mice. The research aims to leverage in vivo recording techniques, projection-specific optogenetic stimulation, and computational approaches to determine how social recognition information encoded in the ventral...
- 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 elucidate how POMC neurons in the hypothalamus respond to social stimuli and regulate social behaviors during development. The $461,084 award to Yale University, with a period of performance from June 16, 2025 to June 15, 2027, will leverage in vivo two-photon microendoscopy techniques to map the responses of POMC neurons to social cues in...
- This federal Project Grant award of $3,299,818.00 was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The grant supports research by Yale University to study the neural mechanisms underlying complex social interaction strategies in freely moving individuals. The research aims to determine the interaction strategies used by dyads in novel social interaction tasks, and investigate the neural codes and population dynamics...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $816,063 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the neural mechanisms underlying how social stimuli elicit motivated behavior. The key focus of the research is to understand how neural representations of social rank information, such as dominant and submissive social cues, converge onto brain...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research to understand the causal role of the medial prefrontal cortex in human social cognition. The $751,897 award will fund a 5-year project by researchers at the University of Iowa to use a combination of lesion studies, behavioral assessments, and neuroimaging to elucidate how the medial prefrontal cortex functions within the brain network...
- The federal Project Grant award titled "Neural Computations Underlying the Relationship Between Social Learning and Mood" was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) for $158,286.00. The award aims to better understand how social interactions and learning of social norms influence mood, with potential implications for treating socio-affective deficits. The project will utilize human single-unit recordings to examine the role of...
- This Project Grant award of $711,897.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program supports research to explore the role of serotonin in modulating aggressive and prosocial behaviors. The key research objectives are to: Characterize the temporal dynamics of serotonin's effects on aggression and prosocial behavior using optogenetic manipulations and serotonin sensor recordings. Identify the specific subpopulations of neurons...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $778,548 to support research on the neural mechanisms underlying social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. The awardee, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. through its Nathan S. Kline Institute Division, will utilize multimodal neuroimaging approaches, including ERP, fMRI, and transcranial direct current stimulation, to investigate...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $151,040 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on the neural mechanisms regulating affiliative social behaviors in mice. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) utilize optogenetics to manipulate oxytocin-responsive neurons in the medial amygdala and their projections to other brain regions involved in...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $489,192 to East Carolina University (ECU) to investigate the neural bases of social dominance and its impact on behavior using zebrafish as a model organism. The key objectives are to examine how social dominance affects the morphological architecture and functional plasticity of the diencephalic dopaminergic posterior tuberculum nucleus (PTN),...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying social competence, with a focus on the behaviors of competition and cooperation. The $626,557 award to the University of Florida will utilize optical methods, chemogenetics, and machine learning to investigate the role of the prelimbic cortex and its projections in modulating competitive and cooperative behaviors in mice. The research project, running from August 2025 to May 2030, seeks to advance scientific understanding of how the brain regulates shifts in social behavior, with potential implications for treating mental health disorders marked by social competence deficits.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $626.6k | 8/15/25 |