On Friday, October 27, 2017, we hosted our annual International Mental Health Research Symposium followed by the International Awards Dinner, where we celebrated 30 years of awarding research grants.
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Voluntary 177-Member Council Reviews More Than 1,200-Annual Grant Applications, for Nation’s Top Non-Governmental Funder of Mental Health Research Grants
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The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) mourns the passing of our dear friend Senator Pete Domenici.
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Constance E. Lieber, who served as President of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, formerly known as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) from 1989 to 2007, is the recipient of the 2017 Honorary Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health. Mrs. Lieber transformed her family’s experience with mental illness into a lifetime of support for psychiatric research into schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses.
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An important discovery has been made at the University of Pittsburgh. It raises the prospect that there may be an entirely new way of relieving major depression in people who repeatedly have failed to respond to existing treatments—people at elevated risk for suicide whose lives are often unrelentingly dark and full of anguish.
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