Project Grant R01MH143686
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $450,175 to the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. on April 15, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate whether underuse of episodic future thinking during food choice contributes to restrictive eating behavior in anorexia nervosa treatment-seeking patients. The recipient, operating through its New York State Psychiatric Institute division, will conduct a functional magnetic resonance imaging...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. (operating through its New York State Psychiatric Institute division) $1.844 million on May 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a treatment optimization study for anorexia nervosa relapse prevention. The award funds an optimization experiment using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework to evaluate competing versions of four behavioral...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Washington University $131,569 on September 18, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to examine developmental pathways linking obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia nervosa and to test a mechanism-based psychosocial treatment for this comorbidity. The project uses longitudinal community data and real-world clinical samples to identify specific mechanisms underlying anorexia-OCD progression and comorbidity...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Sanford Research North $885,500 on March 5, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to identify the specific reward-related processes underlying binge-eating disorder using electroencephalography and ecological momentary assessment. The research evaluates concurrent associations between binge-eating symptoms and food reward processes—including wanting, liking, and learning—assessed at the neural level in the laboratory...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco $410,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and test a single-session consultation protocol for treatment-seeking youth with eating disorders and their caregivers while waiting for specialty care access. The research follows a Type I hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial structure. UCSF will conduct a preparatory phase engaging...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia $170,024 on May 4, 2026, to support a mentored K23 career development project examining computational learning mechanisms underlying aberrant food approach in youth with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). Under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), the research project will use computational modeling—specifically active inference and reinforcement learning approaches—to...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Texas at Dallas $828,822 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate biobehavioral mechanisms linking physical activity, sedentary behavior, self-regulation, and loss of control eating in children and adolescents. The research employs a multi-method biobehavioral approach integrating neuroimaging, accelerometry, neurocognitive assessments, and ecological momentary assessment...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $179,680 on July 14, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242, K01 award mechanism) to examine how aversive valence shapes food choices in anorexia nervosa. The research will investigate whether individuals with anorexia nervosa assign aversive valence to energy-dense foods as a mechanism underlying restrictive eating pathology. The study enrolls 50 patients...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will provide $941,616 to North Dakota State University to study the relationship between food cue exposure, food craving, and binge eating behavior, and how these relationships are influenced by alterations in attention and memory processes. The project will use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Central Michigan University $558,960 on August 15, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to use machine learning to identify salient factors impacting disordered eating risk and treatment among rural adolescents. The project runs through August 14, 2029, and is performed in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The research addresses disordered eating prevalence among rural adolescents, which occurs at approximately double the...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Louisville $1,167,105 on August 21, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a digital written exposure therapy intervention for eating disorders. The funded research expands a successfully completed pilot trial to establish self-guided facing eating disorder fears (SG-FEDF)—an entirely digital, self-guided written imaginal exposure therapy protocol—as an evidence-based treatment. SG-FEDF targets unremitted cognitive eating disorder pathology, specifically fear of weight gain and associated consequences. The protocol comprises one session of avatar-delivered psychoeducation on anxiety and exposure therapy followed by four sessions in which patients write about, imagine, and process eating disorder fears. The study will conduct a fully-powered hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial with 900 participants to establish SG-FEDF as evidence-based, determine for whom and when the intervention works best, and assess implementation outcomes. The University of Louisville's Office of Research & Innovation serves as the recipient. Place of performance is Louisville, Kentucky. The period of performance runs through April 30, 2031. The award addresses a stated gap in eating disorder treatment access: more than 80 percent of individuals with eating disorders cannot access or cannot access appropriate care, and fewer than 50 percent of those receiving evidence-based treatment and specialty care achieve full remission. The intervention targets improving both treatment outcomes and accessibility to evidence-based care to reduce suffering and impairment caused by eating disorders.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.2m | 8/26/26 |