Funding research structures

✍ Scribed by Rick A. Martinez; Barry D. Lebowitz; Gene D. Cohen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 531 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/gps.930080105

✦ Synopsis

Research priorities established by the field of geriatric psychiatry are the principal source of ideas for investigations supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging and a host of private organizations and foundations. Individuals, at various stages in their careers, can compete for federal stipends to pursue these research inquiries. Knowledge of the assortment of awards available is part of an overall strategy candidates need to develop in planning and maintaining productive research careers. KEY woms-Funding, research, geriatric psychiatry.

During the late 1970s and early eighties the field of geriatric psychiatry benefited from and contributed to the dramatic growth in research on mental health and mental illness.