The National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). The NIH, in turn, is an agency of the United States Department of
Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. NIMH is the largest research organization in the world specializing in mental illness. Joshua A. Gordon is the current Director of NIMH. The institute was first authorized by the U.S. Government in 1946, when then President Harry Truman signed into
law the National
Mental Health Act, although the institute was not formally established until 1949.[1]
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