a branch of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) that oversees neurologic and psychologic research.
NIMH's mission is to understand mind, brain, and behavior, thereby reducing the burden of mental illness through research.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is part of the federal government of the United States and the largest research organization in the world specializing in mental illness. It is one of the 27 component organizations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is in turn part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.