Project Grant R01MH145225
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $427,625 on August 15, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate the relationship between social media use, rejection sensitivity, and depression in female adolescents. The research examines how social media characteristics—including network features and positive or negative online experiences—and endocrine contexts affect rejection sensitivity and depressive...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $431,750 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Division on August 20, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate social media behaviors that generate social connections and mitigate distress in early adolescence. The recipient will conduct a multimodal research investigation examining how approach-oriented social media behaviors—such as reacting to and sharing content with peers—foster social...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded $3.63 million under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research to investigate the bidirectional relationship between adolescent social media exposure and mental health outcomes. The four-year project, initiated September 10, 2025 and concluding September 9, 2029, will deliver a longitudinal research study tracking 2,000 adolescents aged 13-16...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. $405,505 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate how daily social media engagement influences mood and coping among socially disconnected adolescents in rural and low-resource areas. The research comprises two stages. Stage 1 will collect one month of passive mobile-use data from 20 rural adolescents ages 13–17 to derive preliminary...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Pittsburgh $840,321 for a five-year Project Grant (R01MH145219) beginning September 1, 2026, to investigate the relationship between digital media use and social anxiety in adolescents under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The recipient will conduct a longitudinal study enrolling 175 adolescents ages 13–17 with varying levels of social anxiety to examine how digital experiences of social threat and...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Rutgers, The State University $100,228 on November 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to examine the short-term effects of adolescent social media experiences on suicidal ideation, with particular focus on the roles of identity exploration and functioning. The award supports research investigating how identity exploration during social media use may affect suicide risk in adolescents. The project addresses a...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $118,404 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on July 1, 2026, to support research examining dynamic functional network biomarkers of emotion regulation flexibility in internalizing disorders. The research addresses transdiagnostic biomarkers for internalizing disorders including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. The recipient will analyze a large-scale longitudinal...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded $913,000 in Project Grant funding (CFDA 93.242: Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The research project, titled "Social Media Concerns Related to Emotional Experience in Naturalistic Settings: SCREENS," responds to RFA-MH-25-206 (Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Southern California $1.105 million on August 7, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to establish a global framework for harmonized functional MRI analysis in psychiatry. The project will harmonize resting-state fMRI datasets across eight psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression disorder, obsessive compulsive...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The McLean Hospital Corporation $193,320 on February 18, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242, Assistance Listing) to support a K23 mentored career development award focused on online social networking mechanisms of suicide in adolescents. The award funds research establishing objective, ecologically valid assessment of interpersonal behavior in adolescents with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBS) through analysis...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $393,750 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 1, 2026, to investigate bidirectional influences between social media use and adolescent depression through analysis of frontoparietal network connectivity. The research leverages five waves of longitudinal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (N>10,000, ages 13–18) to examine associations among problematic versus normative social media use, risk for adolescent depression, and frontoparietal network development. The project applies smartphone-based passive sensing technology to obtain objective measures of social media exposure, departing from prior studies reliant on self-reported use. Prior findings from the investigator's work show that greater use of negative emotional words on social media apps correlates with increased within-network functional connectivity of both medial and dorsal frontoparietal networks; depression diagnosis has been associated with greater medial frontoparietal network functional connectivity but lower dorsal frontoparietal network connectivity with midcingulo-insular networks. The study tests whether pathological social media use potentiates depression risk and the extent to which frontoparietal network development is impacted by social media use. The award supports work performed in Los Angeles, California, with a period of performance through May 31, 2029. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $393.8k | 8/31/26 |