Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior: The Foundations of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at the National Institutes of Health - Biomedical and Health Research

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Publisher Marketing: To understand the groundbreaking discoveries in the field of neuroscience, it is important to understand the context of what came before, in the last half century. This book is a detailed description of the history of The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Blindness (NINDB, today the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke). Two different perspectives (one historical and one scientific) will offer different kinds of analysis, each approach asking different questions, employing different methods, and relying on different sources of evidence. The first scientists laid the vital groundwork needed to make progress against neurological and mental disorders. Scientists today have powerful tools and methods at their disposal thanks to the efforts of the early neuroscientists, who fuelled the engine of discovery and changed the nature of the scientific questions that can be asked today. research, but also provides a perspective that illuminates contemporary policy debates about the nature and direction of biomedical and social science research as well as the relationships between government and science. Contributor Bio:  Harden, Victoria A Victoria A. Harden retired in 2006 after twenty years as the founding director of the Office of NIH History at the National Institutes of Health. She has written numerous articles about AIDS and has lectured widely on its history. Dr. Harden is the author of "Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887 1937" (1986) and "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease" (1990), the latter winning the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government. She received the American Historical Association 's 2006 Herbert Feis Award for outstanding contributions to public history. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.