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organizations in the post-World War II era. For the neuro­

sciences and the communicative sciences the NINDB

provided the major resources through its research grant,

training grant, and special training programs.^3

Over 50 years much has been accomplished, but many more chal­

lenges continue to confront us. May the next anniversary enlighten us

even more.

Notes

1. The sources employed in this account were: Pearce Bailey, “National Institute
   of Neurological Diseases and Blindness: Origins, Founding, and Early
   Years (1950 to 1959),” in The Nervous System: A Three-Volume Work
   Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the National Institute of Neurological
   and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Vol. 1: The Basic Neurosciences,
   eds. Donald B. Tower and Roscoe O. Brady (New York: Raven Press, 1975),
   xxi-xxxii; Donald B. Tower, “Introduction,”Ibid., xvii-xx; Donald B. Tower,
   “The Neurosciences–Basic and Clinical,” in NIH: An Account of Research in
   its Laboratories and Clinics, eds. DeWitt Stetten, Jr., and W. T. Carrigan
   (Orlando: Academic Press, 1984), 48-70.


2. I have not included here the Ophthalmology Branch, headed by Ludwig
   von Sallmann. It would seem more appropriate to include it in a review
   of programs of the National Eye Institute.


3. Donald B. Tower, “Introduction,” in The Nervous System, xix-xx.