Mental Health Award: improving cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis
This call will provide funding to individuals or teams from not-for-profit or commercial organisations for two types of applications. Firstly, to develop and evaluate interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis. Secondly, to test new or existing markers of cognitive functioning for prediction of risk or treatment stratification.

Call at a glance
Career stage: Leading a research programme
Where your host organisation is based: Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
Level of funding: Up to £3 million for applications developing interventions. Up to £1 million for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.

Duration of funding: Up to 5 years for intervention development and evaluation. Up to 3 years for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.

About this call
As part of our strategic focus on mental health as a key global health challenge, we aim to enable early intervention for the most common and the most severe mental health conditions, in ways that reflect the priorities and needs of people experiencing them. This work includes developing and improving ways to predict, identify and intervene as early as possible for anxiety, depression and psychosis.

This call aims to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis, an area of unmet patient need.

Wellcome recently commissioned a review of interventions targeting cognitive impairment in psychosis. It highlighted that "cognitive impairments are a core feature of psychotic disorders and often appear well before the onset of full-threshold psychotic disorder. While psychotic and other psychiatric symptoms generally respond to medication and psychotherapy, cognitive impairments often interfere with full functional recovery, including the ability to achieve vocational success and independent living."

In this one-off call, we are looking to: support the development and evaluation of interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis, and   increase our understanding of the potential for markers of cognitive functioning to enable risk or treatment stratification for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis.

Deadline: May 05, 2022
Donor: Wellcome
Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges
Grant Size: More than $1 million
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Area: Health
Wellcome is accepting nominations for Mental Health Award: improving cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis.
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