Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 11

a Training and Standards Branch (training grants and stipends); a Research
Grants and Fellowships Branch (non-federal research); and an Office of
the Scientific Director (intramural research).^43 The first three branches
comprised the extramural program of the institute. Tables 1 and 2 indicate
the funding allocated to each program and the distribution of funding
within the intramural research program:

Table 1. NIMH Funding History–Appropriations
(in thousands of dollars)

Research

Extramural

Research

Intramural

Research

Total

Training

Clinical

Training

Research

Training

Total

Community

Mental

Health

Program

Research

Management

and

Support

NIMH
Total
1948 $473 $102 $575 $1,107 $277 $1,384 $4,025 $267 $6,251
1949 716 137 853 1,336 334 1,670 5,806 152 8,481
1950 1,203 265 1,468 3,182 796 3,978 5,698 193 11,337
1951 794 524 1,318 1,605 401 2,006 5,787 252 9,363
1952 1,629 757 2,386 3,018 755 3,773 3,403 251 9,813
1953 1,828 1,016 2,844 3,206 801 4,007 3,396 227 10,474
1954 2,834 1,599 4,433 3,572 893 4,465 2,657 186 11,741
1955 3,869 2,715 6,584 3,664 916 4,580 2,648 218 14,030
1956 4,364 3,489 7,853 5,289 1,322 6,611 3,219 275 17,958
1957 8,123 4,826 12,949 9,811 2,453 12,264 4,653 140 30,006
1958 13,367 5,692 19,059 11,386 2,846 14,232 4,993 173 38,457
1959 18,092 6,386 24,478 15,898 3,974 19,872 5,167 336 49,853
1960 24,916 7,024 31,940 23,095 5,774 28,869 6,300 361 67,470
Source: Compiled from NIMH data

Table 2. NIMH Intramural Funding History–By Priority
(in thousands of dollars)
Basic
BrainSchizophrenia Depression Aging Child Anxiety

Behavioral
Medicine Other Total
1948 $ 35 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 67 $ 102
1949 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 137
1950 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 165 265
1951 367 0 0 0 0 0 0 157 524
1952 592 0 0 0 0 0 0 165 757
1953 298 110 153 66 110 33 66 180 1,016
1954 565 170 238 102 170 51 102 201 1,599
1955 1,113 281 394 169 281 84 169 224 2,715
1956 1,439 367 514 220 367 110 220 252 3,489
1957 2,039 505 707 303 505 152 303 312 4,826
1958 2,300 595 832 357 595 178 357 478 5,692
1959 2,559 699 978 419 699 210 419 403 6,386
1960 3,011 721 1,009 432 721 216 432 482 7,024
Source: Compiled from NIMH data