Silvio O. Conte Centers to Develop Collaborative Research in the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders (P20)

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Silvio O. Conte Centers to Develop Collaborative Research in the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders (P20): -Purpose. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research center grant applications for Silvio O. Conte Centers to Develop Collaborative Research in the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders (CCDCR): schizophrenia, mood disorders, and other severe mental illnesses. The primary goal of this initiative is to support integration and translation of basic and clinical neuroscience research on severe mental illnesses. Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and integrative research is paramount to better understand the structure and function of the brain in health and mental illness. Such cross-cutting research is often difficult to execute, as it commonly requires collaboration among scientists who work in different intellectual contexts, use different tools, and sometimes speak seemingly different languages. Despite the importance of such collaborative efforts, support for teams of investigators even established investigators with little or no track record as a team, is difficult to obtain. This initiative is intended to facilitate the development of collaborative research teams of established investigators by providing support for interactive research projects and cores to serve them. Research supported by these centers should seek to clarify the neural substrates of mental disorders, including the etiology, pathogenesis and/or developmental progressions of those disorders and the biological phenotypes associated with them. Such knowledge will ultimately enhance capabilities to diagnose, monitor, treat, and prevent mental disorders. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) represents a major NIMH commitment to these goals.