The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $612,784 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242) to Square2 Systems Inc. on September 1, 2024 to finalize and assess the feasibility, technical merit, and commercial potential of the Cogito digital therapeutics (DTx) platform. The Cogito platform aims to provide a turnkey solution for rapidly developing, evaluating, deploying, and scaling science-based, personalizable, and scalable DTx to prevent, treat, or manage a wide range of mental health...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Parc Innovations LLC, a woman-owned small business based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The $442,074 grant will fund the development and initial testing of an automated e-learning platform for training therapists in exposure therapy, a well-established evidence-based practice for treating anxiety disorders. The project will involve three stages: (1) a...
This $1,309,500 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support (CFDA 93.310) program supports the development of a novel digital psychiatry diagnostic framework that utilizes crowdsourcing algorithms to improve the specificity of machine learning models in distinguishing between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adolescents. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,174,487 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop and pilot a platform called the Holistic Realtime Measurement of Effort-based Decision-Making (HORMES) system. The HORMES system will measure behavior across decision-making, embodied, affective, and clinical domains, synchronized with measurements of relevant neural circuits, to characterize brain-body interactions...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to optimize an automated chatbot to provide efficient, scalable treatment for eating disorders (EDs). The $1,682,938 award will fund a multiphase optimization randomized controlled trial (ORCT) to test four candidate ED treatment components and identify the most effective chatbot package. The study will enroll 800 adults with EDs, not currently in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is supporting the development and validation of an AI-enabled virtual assistant app called CLAIRITY. The app aims to automate the identification of individuals at risk of suicide, depression, and anxiety, and guide them to appropriate interventions. The $458,782 award will enable the awardee, Clarigent Corporation, to characterize the effects of using an...
This Project Grant award, totaling $2,005,780 and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop digital strategies to advance help-seeking in youth at clinical high risk for developing psychosis. The key products and services to be delivered include: Characterizing help-seeking subtypes in 25,000 youth who screen above threshold for psychosis risk on the Mental Health America (MHA) online screening...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Sep 16, 2024. The grant, titled "RCT of a Measurement Feedback App to Improve Data Quality, Supervision & Outcomes in Behavioral Health", will fund the development and evaluation of a mobile application called "FOOTSTEPS" to improve data collection and quality in community behavioral health settings....
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will pilot an innovative digital Contingency Management (CM) treatment delivered via mobile device to Medicaid beneficiaries with co-occurring opioid and alcohol use disorders. The $390,000 award, spanning from September 2024 to August 2027, aims to: 1) identify optimal approaches to engage Medicaid beneficiaries in digital CM through Medicaid claims data...
This Project Grant award of $622,826 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is funding Anise Health Inc. to develop and evaluate culturally-sensitive digital mental health tools for Asian American (AA) clients. The key objectives are to: 1) Adapt and further develop evidence-based, culturally-sensitive digital mental health tools targeting the impact of race-based trauma and bicultural tension on mental health...