# NIMH News Feed

- Facebook Live: Brain Stimulation Therapies NIMH expert Sarah H. Lisanby, M.D. will describe common types of brain stimulation therapies, and why they are used, dispel misconceptions, and highlight NIMH-supported research in this area.
- Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Centers Meeting The directors of the Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Research Centers will provide an overview of each of the projects and help each other achieve their common mission.
- Novel Treatment Helps Children With Severe Irritability A new study by NIMH researchers demonstrated the effectiveness, feasibility, and safety of exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for severe irritability and temper outbursts in children. The positive results set the foundation to continue exploring exposure therapy as a potential treatment for childhood irritability.
- NICHD-NIMH Workshop: Impact of Technology and Digital Media on Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health discuss the impact of technology and digital media on child and adolescent development and mental health.
- Information Session: NIMH Intramural Research Program Training Opportunities (March) Undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows are invited to learn about training opportunities available in the NIMH Intramural Research Program.
- Revolutionizing the Study of Mental Disorders The Research Domain Criteria Initiative (RDoC) represented a new way to conceptualize the study of mental illnesses. In celebration of NIMH&#039;s 75th Anniversary, we reflect on the beginning and progress of this initiative.
- Study Reveals Potential Neural Marker for Social Impairment in Psychotic Disorders Research funded by NIMH found a link between a low level of social interest among people with psychotic disorders and brain regions in the social motivation system.
- NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tied to atypical interactions between the brain’s frontal cortex and information processing centers deep in the brain.
- Life with Schizoaffective Disorder In this lived experience feature story, Ray Lay describes the challenges of living with schizoaffective disorder and his later success in life.
- Hidden Histories: Racial Injustice at St. Elizabeths Mental Hospital A decade before the end of slavery, Washington D.C.&#039;s St. Elizabeths Hospital began treating Black patients for mental illnesses. As the nation&#039;s first integrated, federally funded mental health facility, the concept was groundbreaking, but as history shows us, inclusion did not mean equality. In this episode, we&#039;ll talk with Boston College Professor of History Dr. Martin Summers, author of &quot;Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions.&quot; We&#039;ll discuss how ideas of false racial differences shaped the inequitable care of the hospital&#039;s Black patients and learn how those ideas evolved over time.
- Dr. Joshua Gordon to Step Down as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health On February 29, 2024, Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., announced his decision to end his tenure as the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
- Intervention Reduces Likelihood of Developing Postpartum Anxiety and Depression by More Than 70% Results from a large clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health show that an intervention for anxiety provided to pregnant women living in Pakistan significantly reduced the likelihood of the women developing moderate-to-severe anxiety, depression, or both six weeks after birth.
- Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Changing Minds & Advancing Lines: Why We Must Keep Pushing for Mental Health Equity Daniel E. Dawes, J.D. , explored the crucial link between mental health and systemic health through the lens of equity and discussed how we can learn from and repair past issues to achieve mental health equity moving forward. As David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., the 16th Surgeon General of the United States, concluded, “there is no health without mental health .” And there is no health equity without mental health equity.
- Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Changing Minds & Advancing Lines: Why We Must Keep Pushing for Mental Health Equity During this lecture, Daniel E. Dawes, J.D. , explored the crucial link between mental health and systemic health through the lens of equity and discuss how we can learn from and repair past issues to achieve mental health equity moving forward. A full recording of the event will be available soon.
- Workshop Day Two: Advancing the Science on Peer Support and Suicide Prevention This workshop brought experts in peer support suicide prevention to discuss relevant conceptual frameworks, recent advances in understanding what works and for whom, service settings and service-user characteristics that inform intervention strategies across the crisis services continuum, digital and telehealth applications, considerations for youth, and equity considerations.