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Healthy Minds Across America features 48 public forums on mental health research, Sept. 14
Date:9/2/2008

" said Constance E. Lieber, NARSAD's president emerita, who is chairing this event. "We hope that people who are coping with mental illness, their friends and loved ones, and mental health professionals will all attend these forums to learn about the progress that's being made in understanding and treating mental illness, and why there is reason for hope for improved treatments and even cures, if research can continue to flourish."

With that concern and goal in mind, this fall NARSAD will announce the launch of a $200 million fundraising campaign which will also be called Healthy Minds Across America to increase the organization's capacity to fund innovative research on mental health disorders. Outside of the U.S. federal government, NARSAD, a nonprofit organization, is the largest source of competitive funding for mental health research.

"Government funding for mental health research has remained flat in the United States, and probably won't get better any time soon," said Dr. Pardes, who helped to found NARSAD. "But we can't wait for the government. Too many lives are at stake, and we must not lose momentum in the pace of discovery we've achieved over the past two decades."

Since 1987, when NARSAD began giving grants as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, it has awarded more than $238 million in research funds to more than 2,700 scientists at universities and medical centers in the U.S., Canada and 25 other countries.

In 2008 alone, NARSAD has given $19 million in grants to nearly 300 scientists conducting clinical and basic research relating to depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, childhood mental disorders, and other conditions.

The 48 Healthy Minds Across America free public forums on Sept. 14 will take place at many of the universities and medical centers where NARSAD has supported cutting-edge research for more than 20 years.


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Contact: Kristen Simone
ksimone@narsad.org
516-829-0091
NARSAD, The Mental Health Research Association
Source:Eurekalert

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