Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior

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NIMH Clinical Neuropharmacology Research Center at St. Elizabeths Hospital, 1961. Left to

right, front row: Hans Weil-Malherbe, Joel Elkes (Chief of Center), Gian Carlo Salmoiraghi,

Stephen Szara

Donated to the Office of NIH History by Dr. Joel Elkes

University of Birmingham, in England, agreed to head the CNRC and

arrived in September 1957 to plan, furnish, and equip the laboratories

within the White building.

The CNRC did not move into the building until July 1958, but

three research sections had been created.^4 The Section on Clinical

Psychiatry focused on a survey of the existing patient population, hos­

pital personnel, and ward conditions at St. Elizabeths Hospital, and

conducted studies that determined and classified the clinical, somatic,

biochemical and endocrine responses of patients to established and

new drugs. Specifically, and in combination with the Laboratory of

Socio-Environmental Studies, the Laboratory of Psychology, and the

Biometrics Branch, this section studied the comparative effects of two