Our Mission

The mission of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is to promote the recovery of persons with mental illness in North Carolina through evidence-based and cost-effective prevention, treatment, training, research and community education.

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  Brain circuits for successful emotional development established during infancy

  Results from the UNC Early Brain Development Study, led at UNC by John Gilmore, MD, suggest that early detection and intervention could help children at risk for emotional problems.

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  Grayson Bowen featured in Carolina People in University Gazette

  Grayson Bowen is a peer support specialist and the coordinator of the Brushes with Life Arts Program at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health.

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  Imaging structural and functional brain development in early childhood

  Published Online February 16 Nature John Gilmore, MD
  The human brain undergoes rapid development during the first two years of life. Here, Gilmore and colleagues give an overview of recent neuroimaging studies of the developmental trajectories of brain structure and function in the first years after birth.
  John H. Gilmore. Rebecca C. Knickmeyer & Wei Gao