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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Torrey, E. Fuller
• Dailey, Lisa

Titel

What NIMH Should Be Doing

Ist Teil von

• Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2022-03, Vol.73 (3), p.247-248

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Psychiatric Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Torrey and Dailey discuss the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). NIMH's primary purpose originally was to help persons currently affected by mental illness. From the beginning, it was envisioned that basic brain research would also be part of NIMH's research portfolio, and in 1950, Congress created the National Science Foundation specifically to focus on basic research, including basic brain research. Given the ongoing and increasing failure of NIMH to support research that is likely to help anyone who currently has a serious mental illness, they recommend that NIMH be required to direct a minimum of 50% of its research funds to clinical research that has a significant chance of helping patients currently affected.