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THE Rockefeller Foundation has given £9,000 for research at the Neuropsychiatric Research Centre at Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, for research on the normal and-pathological biochemistry of brain tissue under the direction of Dr. Derek Richter. Whitchurch Hospital is one of the leading hospitals in Britain for the investigation and treatment of mental disorders, and a Neuropsychiatric Research Centre has recently been established for which the present grant has been made. The magnitude of the problem of nervous and mental disease in Britain alone is not generally recognized. There are more hospital beds occupied by mental patients than by all other diseases put together, and the annual cost of upkeep exceeds £12,000,000. Research on mental disease has been very much neglected in the past. The object of the work now being carried out at Cardiff is to find out more about the working of the brain and nervous system in health and disease, so that this knowledge can be applied to the treatment of mental disorders of every kind. The lines of research now in progress include biochemical work on the enzymes in the brain, and work using the radioactive ‘tracer' technique. Clinical research is also being carried out on problems related to schizophrenia, epilepsy and senility.
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Research on the Biochemistry of Brain Tissue. Nature 161, 346–347 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161346e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161346e0