BASIC BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RESEARCH FOR MENTAL HEALTH: A National Investment

Psychological Science is pleased to reprint this Executive Summary of a report written in response to a request by the Senate Committee on Appropriations that a national plan for behavioral science research be developed The authors of the report, the Behavioral Science Task Force of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, included 52 eminent behavioral and social scientists in the field as well as staff of the Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (see the list of contributors at the end of the Executive Summary) To receive a complete copy of the report, write to the Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Sciences Research Branch, NIMH, 5600 Fishers Lane Room 11C-16, Rockville, MD 20857, e-mail: behavsci@helix.mh.gov