National Institutes of Health. Division of Parkinson's Disease Research ^{R&D Centre}

Neuroscience has a long and rich history at the NIH, which dates back to the establishment of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1949 and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in 1950. As one of the largest and most diverse programs of its kind in the world, neuroscience research in the Intramural Research Program (IRP) encompasses 200 Principal Investigators, 650 postdoctoral fellows, and 100 graduate students conducting basic, behavioral, translational, and clinical research in over 150 laboratories at 12 NIH Institutes and Centers.