Teachers, school counselors, and other educational professionals are on the front line of interacting with children with mental health issues and can often be among some of the first people to see that a child is struggling. Enhancing the potential for early intervention is important and because educational professionals have relationships with students and their families, they are able to make appropriate referrals for evaluation.

Teachers, school counselors, and other educational professionals are on the front line of interacting with children with mental health issues and can often be among some of the first people to see that a child is struggling. Enhancing the potential for early intervention is important and because educational professionals have relationships with students and their families, they are able to make appropriate referrals for evaluation.

What happens in the brain when we fall asleep? Researchers who study this question hope to understand not only how sleep provides an interval during which the brain can repair and restore itself, but also how natural variations or dysfunction in the processes associated with the sleep/wake transition and the progression through various sleep phases may be involved in sleep-related disorders.

It has been estimated that one in three people with major depressive disorder (MDD) exhibits low-grade systemic inflammation. That is to say, they chronically show elevated levels of inflammatory markers in their blood—higher than is typical in healthy people.

Teachers, school counselors, and other educational professionals are on the front line of interacting with children with mental health issues and can often be among some of the first people to see tha...

Teachers, school counselors, and other educational professionals are on the front line of interacting with children with mental health issues and can often be among some of the first people to see that a child is struggling. Enhancing the potential for early intervention is important and because educational professionals have relationships with students and their families, they are able to make appropriate referrals for evaluation.

Andreassen receives the Colvin Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research for his groundbreaking research on bipolar disorder.

Friday, October 24, 20259:30am-12:30pm EDT Kaufman Music Center129 W 67th St, New York, NY, 10023 Join us on Friday, October 24, 2025 for presentations on leading research discoveries across brain and behavior disorders by the Foundation’s 2025 Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners and the Pardes Humanitarian Prizewinner. PRESENTATIONS: WelcomeJeffrey Borenstein, M.D.President & CEO, BBRF

Teachers, school counselors, and other educational professionals are on the front line of interacting with children with mental health issues and can often be among some of the first people to see that a child is struggling. Enhancing the potential for early intervention is important and because educational professionals have relationships with students and their families, they are able to make appropriate referrals for evaluation.

There is broad agreement among psychiatrists, based on many years of clinical experience, that early treatment following a first episode of psychosis (FEP) provides the best chance for improving a patient’s subsequent outcome. In many cases, FEP is followed within 6 months to several years by a diagnosis of schizophrenia. While this is not the case in every instance, among those who do go on to manifest the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia, there is considerable variability in how each individual fares.

Teachers, school counselors, and other educational professionals are on the front line of interacting with children with mental health issues and can often be among some of the first people to see that a child is struggling. Enhancing the potential for early intervention is important and because educational professionals have relationships with students and their families, they are able to make appropriate referrals for evaluation.

A significant number of people who suffer concussions—estimates range between 10% and 30%—experience a range of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms that persist for 4 or more weeks beyond the acute phase of the injury.

Age-associated psychiatric conditions such as depression are thought to be associated, in a significant number of cases, with reduced motivation to engage in effortful activities. This comes as no surprise, since lower levels of motivation also are widely seen in younger people who suffer from depression. In young people, very low motivation is atypical; in older people, it may be part of the normal aging process.

For several years, Robert C.