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Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness Continues Community Service Grant Program

Raleigh, NC — March 1, 2007

Five local mental health researchers will receive funding for their research project from the Foundation of Hope.

The Board of Trustees of the Foundation of Hope For Research and Treatment of Mental Illness selected the five researchers. The Foundation of Hope was established in 1984 by the late Thad and Alice Eure to promote scientific mental health research. The Foundation funds research that can help to discover causes of mental illness and potential cures, as well as more effective means of treatment.

Since its inception, The Foundation has provided over $2.5 million dollars in funding for 96 mental health research projects in the Triangle area. Foundation grants to local researchers have led to an additional $90 million dollars in funding for these projects from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Research projects are conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dorothea Dix Hospital.

Funds distributed by The Foundation of Hope are raised each year through the Thad and Alice Eure Walk for Hope, which is scheduled this year for Sunday, October 14, 2007.

The researchers and projects receiving funding are:

• Dr. Denisse Ambler
  Project: "Strategies to Reduce Antipsychotic-Associated Weight Gain in Youth"
• Dr. Aysenil Belger
  Project: "Search for Brain Biobehavioral Markers of Schizophrenia: Clinical, Electrophysiological, Neuroimaging and Neurocognitive Alterations in Clinical and Genetic High Risk Adolescents"
• Dr. Fredrik Jarskog
  Project: "Epigenetic Regulation of BDNF in Schizophrenia Cortex"
• Dr. Rebecca Knickmeyer
  Project: "Early Brain Development in Children of Mothers with Depressive Disorders During Pregnancy"
• Dr. Robert McClure
  Project: "Schizophrenia & Genomic Regions Implicated in Human Evolution"

One of the oldest community charity walk's the Foundation's Annual Thad and Alice Eure Walk for Hope is the only annual community event raising funds for mental health research in the country. The 2007 Walk for Hope is Sunday, October 14, 2007.

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