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Mental Health and Addictive Disorders

By Harold Alan Pincus (Edited by)

Table of Contents

Introduction. The Âanatomy of research funding of mental illness and addictive disorders. Successful research grant applications. Federal funding and psychiatric research. Foundations and nonprofit research support. Research capacities and activities of state mental health agencies. Industry and academia collaboration in psychiatric research. Research opportunities in child and adolescent mental disorders. Aging and psychiatric research. How to publish in the scientific literature. Issues in psychiatric research training. Research ethics and human subject issues. Animal-based research and the animal rights movement. Influencing the political agenda on behalf of psychiatric research. Appendix A: National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural AIDS contacts. Appendix B: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee. Appendix C: Federal health services research contacts. Appendix D: Federal sleep research contacts. Appendix E: Federal contacts on womenÂs health issues. Appendix F: Federal neuroscience research contacts. Index.

About the Author

Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., is Professor and Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry in the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Senior Scientist and Director of RAND at the University of Pittsburgh Health Research Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

"This book provides comprehensive and clear guides and references. Not only researchers will find this book valuable. Anyone wanting to know the functions of many federal agencies and foundations will find this book answers many questions."-- "Washington Psychiatry"