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...People were so distressed they needed to tell their stories,” Kessler explained. “It would be foolish for us not to capture the information.”The study is being funded by a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Farris K. Tuma, the chief of the Traumatic Stress Disorders Research Program there, wrote in an e-mail that the NIMH decided to fund the study because, unlike past studies, it asks a representative sample of survivors about their health and human-services needs.—Staff writer Alex...
...that rides to the rescue. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) paid $42.6 million to study existing drugs for schizophrenia. It's money well spent, says institute director Dr. Thomas Insel, but "that's money we can't put into developing the next generation of these compounds or understanding the biology of this disease...
That's no fluke, according to a small group of doctors who have reported similar successes at research centers around the world. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is sufficiently intrigued that it has asked the New York institute and three other groups to conduct a rigorous study of 240 depressed patients, comparing the effects of magnetic stimulation against a placebo. "Within the next few years, we'll have a better idea of whether rTMS is safe and effective for depression," says Dr. Sarah Lisanby, who is leading the study at the institute. There is also growing interest...
...anyone want to generate tiny electrical currents in their brain? "You have to remember the brain is both an electrical and a chemical organ," says Dr. Mark George, a psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina who is investigating magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression for the NIMH. Drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address chemical imbalances, but that's only part of the problem. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite its troubling side effects, is still one of the most effective treatments available for severe, unrelenting depression...
Hyman’s time at NIMH may have prepared him for the kind of consensus-building inherent in a position like that of the provost, some former colleagues...