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  2. National Institute of Mental Health - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, in turn, is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health -related research.

  3. Thomas R. Insel - Wikipedia

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    Thomas R. Insel. Thomas Roland Insel (born October 19, 1951) is an American neuroscientist, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and author who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. [2] Prior to becoming Director of NIMH, he was the founding Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory ...

  4. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    History of the battery. Batteries provided the primary source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century. Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the rise of telegraphs and telephones ...

  5. Nickel–metal hydride battery - Wikipedia

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    A nickel–metal hydride battery ( NiMH or Ni–MH) is a type of rechargeable battery. The chemical reaction at the positive electrode is similar to that of the nickel-cadmium cell (NiCd), with both using nickel oxide hydroxide (NiOOH). However, the negative electrodes use a hydrogen-absorbing alloy instead of cadmium.

  6. National Institutes of Health - Wikipedia

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    nih.gov. The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Many NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland ...

  7. National Mental Health Act - Wikipedia

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    An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research relating to psychiatric disorders and to aid in the development of more effective methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of such disorders, and for other purposes. The National Mental Health Act (1946) became law on July 3, 1946. It established and provided funds for ...

  8. Nickel–hydrogen battery - Wikipedia

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    A nickel–hydrogen battery (NiH 2 or Ni–H 2) is a rechargeable electrochemical power source based on nickel and hydrogen. [5] It differs from a nickel–metal hydride (NiMH) battery by the use of hydrogen in gaseous form, stored in a pressurized cell at up to 1200 psi (82.7 bar) pressure. [6] The nickel–hydrogen battery was patented on ...

  9. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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    The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ( NINDS) is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It conducts and funds research on brain and nervous system disorders and has a budget of just over US$2.03 billion. [2] The mission of NINDS is "to reduce the burden of neurological disease—a burden borne by every ...