An overview of research activities of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Klecany, Czech republic. The institute was funded by EU operational project Research and Development for Innovation and started working in 2015. NIMH activities are organized in eight research programs including the neurobiology of the serious mental disorders, social psychiatry, brain imaging and use of information technologies in psychiatric research, epidemiology of addictions, sleep laboratory and chronobiology, electrophysiology, clinical research, and transfer of technologies. The equipment and expertise ranks NIMH Klecany among top neuroscience research institutions in central and eastern Europe.
Keywords: Applied neuroscience; Biological psychiatry; Mental health care; Neuropsychiatric research; Social psychiatry.
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