NIH
National Institutes of Health.
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- NIMH
Stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., whose mission is to “provide national leadership dedicated to understanding, treating, and preventing mental illnesses through basic research on the brain and behavior, and through clinical, epidemiological, and services research.”
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Stands for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., whose mission is to “support and conduct research and research training on the normal structure and function of the nervous system and on the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 600 nervous system […]
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- NINR
The National Institute of Nursing Research, one of the National Institutes of Health.