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By October 1952, Kety unveiled what he envisioned would become
the NIMH-NINDB combined basic research program, consisting of
the following nine laboratories (see Table 4):

Table 4. Kety’s Original Concept for the Intramural Basic Research Program
Laboratory of Biophysics
Section on Neural Transmission
Section on Energetics
Section on Vision and Special Senses
Laboratory of Biochemistry
Section on Enzymology
Section on Phosphorylation
Section on Physical Chemistry
Section on Endocrinology
Section on Cerebral Metabolism
Laboratory of Neurophysiology
Section on Cortex and Forebrain
Section on Spinal Cord
Section on Neuromuscular Physiology
Section on Functional Integration
Laboratory of Pharmacology
Section on Organic Synthesis
Section on Cellular Pharmacology
Section on Pharmacodynamics
Section on Addicting Drugs
Laboratory of Anatomical Sciences
Section on Cytoarchitecture
Section on Functional Neuroanatomy
Section on Developmental Neurology
Section on Chemical Morphology
Laboratory of Experimental Neuropathology
Section on Neuropathology
Section on Quantitative Cytochemistry
Section on Microbiology
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
Section on Aging
Section on Animal Behavior
Section on Human Behavior
Section on Special Senses
Laboratory of Epidemiology
Section on Genetics Section on Mental Disease
Section on Neurological Disease
Laboratory of Socio-Environmental Studies
Section on Community Studies
Section on Family Studies
Section on Special Studies
Source: Proposed Organization of Basic Research Program of NIMH and NINDB, August 29, 1952,
RG 511, NARA