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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:19-20.

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AMERICAN academic and research psychiatry struggles to maintain and renew itself. Federal support for research, scientific training, and career development have been crucial elements in the growth and development of an unsurpassed and internationally respected scientific base in American psychiatry since the 1940s. A recent review of the past 50 years of development in American biological psychiatry strongly supports the need to encourage the efforts of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Rockville, Md, to secure and expand its support of scientific projects and career development and stability among academic psychiatrists.¹

After decades of highly productive growth and stimulation of psychiatric research activity through federal funding, support for psychiatric (as distinct from neuroscientific, behavioral, and social) research and training is not keeping up with public needs or research opportunities. In constant 1945 dollars, annual NIMH grants and their funding level reached an all-time peak in the early 1960s. Dollar . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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