National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)

The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), multidisciplinary institute in the area of mental health and neurosciences, was the result of the amalgamation of the erstwhile mental hospital and the All India Institute of Mental Health on 27th December 1974. The Institute was Inaugurated by Dr. Karan Singh, the union minister for Health and Family Planning. Establishment of this autonomous body under the societies Registration Act into a frontal area of medical service and research in the country. The lunatic asylum which came into being in the later part of the 19th Century established by the Government of India, was amalgamated with Mental Hospital in entry was renamed as Mental hospital in 1925 by the erstwhile Government of Mysore. In 1954, the All India Institute of Mental Heal1974 became an autonomous Institute called NIMHANS. The multidisciplinary integrated approach is the main stay of this institute. November 14,1994, NIMHANS has been declared as Deemed University under Section-3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956(3 of 1956).
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