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    <periodOfReport>2025-12-22</periodOfReport>

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        <issuerName>Minerva Neurosciences, Inc.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>NERV</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerName>Kaul Inderjit</rptOwnerName>
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        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O MINERVA NEUROSCIENCES, INC.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>1500 DISTRICT AVENUE</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>BURLINGTON</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>MA</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>01803</rptOwnerZipCode>
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            <isOther>false</isOther>
            <officerTitle></officerTitle>
            <otherText></otherText>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Stock Option (right to buy)</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>3.98</value>
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            <transactionDate>
                <value>2025-12-22</value>
            </transactionDate>
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                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
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            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>364504</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <value>2035-12-21</value>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>364504</value>
                </underlyingSecurityShares>
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                    <value>364504</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">25% of the option shall vest on November 14, 2026; an additional 45% of the option shall vest on the tenth day following the date of the Issuer's public announcement that it has achieved, on a statistically significant basis, the primary endpoint of its Phase 3 confirmatory trial of roluperidone in schizophrenia at the 12-week timepoint; and the remaining 30% of the option shall vest on the tenth day following the date of the Issuer's public announcement of safety data from the 40-week relapse assessment phase; provided, however, in each case, that the Reporting Person is providing services pursuant to that certain consulting agreement dated November 14, 2025 on each such vesting date.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Geoff Race, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2025-12-23</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
