Help for Parents with Children on Waitlists for Therapy

AIM Clinical Science Fellow Grantee: Madelaine R. Abel, PhD -Massachusetts General Hospital. Madelaine will evaluate the acceptability and efficacy of a single-session, self-guided, online intervention delivered to parents of children ages 5-12-years-old who are on the waitlist for outpatient CBT.

Use of Psilocybin for Youth with Stress Related Disorders

AIM Implementation & Equity Grantee: Amanda Tamman, PhD, from the Baylor University College of Medicine will investigate how psilocybin affects two measures of genetic aging in 18-26 year olds with stress-related disorders.

Youth Intervention for Positive Emotion Enhancement

AIM Implementation & Equity Grantee: Galen McNeil, PhD - UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Dr. McNeil's study will pilot a randomized-controlled trial of the Youth Intervention for Positive Emotion Enhancement (YIPEE) protocol for treatment-seeking anxious youth and their caregivers.

Addressing Urgent Knowledge Gaps in Youth Mental Health Research

AIM Clinical Science Fellow Grant to Dr. Karolin Krause, from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. As an AIM Clinical Science Fellow, Dr. Krause will work to addresses urgent knowledge gaps regarding the content validity and interpretability of impairment scales in youth mental health. Her research focuses

Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Youth

AIM Implementation & Equity Grant to Dr. Evelyn Cho. Dr. Evelyn Cho is a postdoctoral fellow in the Lab for Youth Mental Health at Harvard University. Her program of research focuses on supporting high quality implementation of evidence-based practices for youths and families receiving mental health care in community settings.

Youth Mental Health and Violence

Dr. Jerel Ezell, a professor at Berkeley University, is leading a study on youth violence in urban centers around the country. With AIM’s support, Ezell will be building a “community action board” of Black and Latino youth in Los Angeles to act as researcher collaborators in his study of youth

Smartphone Delivered Mindfulness Intervention

AIM Clinical Science Fellow Grant to Dr. Hannah Lawrence, from the Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth Laboratory at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lawrence research will test whether a smartphone-delivered mindfulness intervention reduces anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents by helping them disengage from repetitive negative thought (RNT).

A Suicide Intervention App for College Students

AIM Clinical Science Fellow Grant to Benjamin Johnson, from Pennsylvania State. Dr. Johnson’s research combines two aims: 1) apply machine learning to ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data to predict the emergence of self-harm urges and suicidality among young adults; 2) employ a mobile intervention to reduce the likelihood of such

Technology-Delivered Intervention for Youth Anxiety

AIM Clinical Science Fellow Grant to postdoctoral research associate, Alexandra Werntz, from the University of Virginia. Dr. Werntz will develop and evaluate a free, easy-to-access technology-delivered intervention (TDI) for youth anxiety used within the context of formal mentoring programs. $50,000

AIM DISBURSES $180,000 TO UCLA’S CENTER FOR COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE – SEMEL INSTITUTE

AIM disbursed $180,000 to UCLA’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which studies the brain and neuropsychiatric disorders in children and adults using advanced brain imaging, specifically functional and structural MRI.