Department of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
The Department of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health And Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, which formally began in the mid-1950,’s, owes its origins to a historical process that began more than a century and a half ago.
Objectives
=> To provide leader ship in the country for the development of Mental Health Services at various levels (from grass root to international level).
=> To impart training of professionals and non-professionals in the field of Mental Health (awareness to research level).
=> To develop programs and service models in Mental Health Care at various levels.
=> To develop specialized training programs in various areas of interest like Child Mental Health, Community Mental Health, Family Mental Health, Deaddiction and Psychotherapy.
=> To conduct continuing medical education programs.
=> To extend services to both community oriented and community based services including non-psychiatric disorders, half-way homes and elderly persons.
=> To focus the work in the areas of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Psychiatric Classification and other areas related to major mental disorders.
=> To develop national and international collaborations for research group.
=> To develop health education materials to both professionals and non-professionals in the field of Mental Health.
Contact Details
Department of Psychiatry
NIMHANS
Hosur Road,
Bangalore - 560029,
India
Phone: +91-80-26995250
Other Departments at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore
- Department of Biophysics
- Department of Biostatistics
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences
- Department of Clinical Psychology
- Department of Epidemiology
- Department of Human Genetics
- Department of Mental Health Education
- Department of Neuroanaesthesia
- Department of Neurochemistry
- Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology
- Department of Neurology
- Department of Neuromicrobiology
- Department of Neuropathology
- Department of Neurophysiology
- Department of Neurosurgery
- Department of Neurovirology
- Department of Nursing
- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Department of Psychiatric Social Work
- Department of Psychiatric and Neurological Rehabilitation
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Psychopharmacology
- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
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