| $21
Million in NIMH Grants Awarded for Bipolar Disorder Research
in Children and Adults
The National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) recently awarded moe than $21 million
in research funding to UHC and CASE for two new studies
of bipolar disorder, a mental illness that affects people
of all ages, even younger children. The studies focus
on improving diagnostic and treatment approaches.
The larger of the two NIMH grants, worth
$17.5 million, will support the comprehensive study of
lithium in treating children and adolescents with mania,
according to Robert Findling, M.D., co-director of the
NIMH Bipolar Research Center at UHC and Case. Lithium,
a mood stabilizer, works through the synthesis and reuptake
of chemical messengers that nerves use to communicate
with each other.
The other grant, for $4.3 million, will
support research to develop more accurate assessment and
diagnostic tools for bipolar disorder in children. It
is called the Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms
(LAMS) study that involves UHC, Case and three other institutions. |
