Is the National Institute of Mental Health failing clinical psychiatry?
2021
Richard Balon
Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Anesthesiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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D009315
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
A component of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with research, overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research. It was established in 1949.
NIMH,National Institute of Mental Health,United States National Institute of Mental Health
D011570
Psychiatry
The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523
Mental Disorders
Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
March 1990,
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry,