The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is going in the wrong direction on mental health research, an expert told a Senate committee Wednesday. "In building programs related to brain research, the National Institute of Mental Health has lost its focus on public mental health, and it has abandoned what should be its natural interest in diagnostic categories," said William Eaton, PhD, a professor of mental health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "These new programs at NIMH have confused a huge range of researchers and puzzled the international community."
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