Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health

The summary for the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health: This PA replaces PAR-00-130. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applications for Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health (IBSC). The purpose of these Centers is to support collaborative, hypothesis-driven basic research activities that will extend the most cutting-edge theories and approaches in basic behavioral science to incorporate current approaches in neuroscience. Center activities will be driven by a basic research question (or set of questions) that is framed at the behavioral level (e.g., cognition, emotion, personality, social interaction) and that is forging connection with neural-level processes. Ultimately, knowledge yielded by such connections will increase the explanatory power of behavioral science, and will enrich neuroscience by providing an ever-more- detailed understanding of behavioral and mental processes. The integration of knowledge that results will be in the service of the fullest understanding of the complex and reciprocal biobehavioral processes responsible for mental health and mental illness. In addition to support for Full-scale Center activities, support also will be available for Start-up Centers. The goal of Start-up Centers is to support a preparatory period of multidisciplinary research prior to the launching of integrative activities on a larger scale. Usually, this will be for those behavioral questions, topics, or domains for which there currently are few known links to neural processes.