Laboratory Information:
National Institute of Mental Health
NIMH Office of Communications
6001 Executive Blvd.
Room 8184, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD 20892-9663
Website: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
Technology Transfer Website: http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/techtran/
Agency/Department: Dept. of Health and Human Services
Region: Mid-Atlantic
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Dr. Suzanne Winfield
Phone: 301-402-4324
Fax: 301-402-0220
Email: winfiels@intra.nimh.nih.gov
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
the Federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. NIH is part of the U.S.
Department
of Health and Human Services.
Mission of the Laboratory:
The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden
of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind,
brain, and behavior. This public health mandate demands that we harness powerful scientific tools to
achieve
better understanding, treatment, and eventually, prevention of these disabling conditions that affect
millions of
Americans. To fulfill its mission, the Institute conducts research on mental disorders and the underlying
basic
science of brain and behavior; supports research on these topics at universities and hospitals around
the United
States; collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on the causes, occurrence, and treatment of
mental
illnesses; supports the training of more than 1,000 scientists to carry out basic and clinical research;
and
communicates information to scientists, the public, the news media, and primary care and mental health
professionals about mental illnesses, the brain, behavior, mental health, and opportunities and advances
in
research in these areas.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs)
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Material Transfer Agreements
- Patents and Licensing
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Functional and Molecular Imaging
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Mood and Anxiety Disorders
- Neural Development and Plasticity
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neurogenetics
- Neuroimmunology and Virology
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Stroke and Ischemia
- Systems and Integrative Neuroscience
