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Defense Visual Information Distribution Service 
American bombers flying during World War II
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service 
American service members conducting an amphibious landing on the beach in WWII
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service 
An American service member raises the flag in the jungle during World War II.
Gettyimages.com/Bettmann 
Official portrait of Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States.
The National Insitute of Health Almanac 
President Harry S Truman applies the first trowel of mortar to the NIH Clinical Center cornerstone.
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation 
President John F. Kennedy speaking about mental health.
National Library of Medicine 
A patient sits curled in a rocking chair while at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1955.
National Building Museum 
A woman viewing Washington, D.C. from St. Elizabeths Hospital in 1955.
National Building Museum 
African American laboratory technicians working on scientific research at St. Elizabeths Hospital circa 1966.
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation 
President John F. Kennedy speaks about the state of mental health in America.
Wikimedia Commons 
President John F. Kennedy signs the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act.
Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum
Diverse NIMH staff gather for a group photo circa 1960.
National Institutes of Health 
A wide angle view of the recently opened NIH clinical center in in Bethesda, Maryland circa 1960.
National Library of Medicine 
Dr. Julius Axelrod examines scientific equipment in the lab in 1973.
National Institutes of Health 
Dr. Richard Coppola studies the brain on computer monitors in 1983.
NIH Clinical Center
An aerial view of the entrance to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
National Institute of Mental Health
Two researchers at work at the National Institute of Mental Health.
National Institute of Mental Health
A researcher peers into a microscope while working at National Institute of Mental Health.
National Institute of Mental Health
A colored scan displayed on a large screen.
National Institute of Mental Health
A microscope positioned among other research equipment at a desk.
National Institute of Mental Health
Researchers review microscope images while working at the National Institute of Mental Health.
National Institute of Mental Health
A child with wires attached to her head and body rests in hospital bed while undergoing a sleep study.
National Institute of Mental Health
A researcher prepares a patient for magnetic stimulation therapy.
National Institute of Mental Health
A doctor jokes with a young patient during a sleep study at the National Institute of Mental Health.
National Institute of Mental Health
Researchers looking at images on monitor.
National Institute of Mental Health
Magnetic stimulation equipment to treat depression is placed on a man's head.
Storyblocks 
A top-down view of a woman speaking with therapist during a counseling session.
Storyblocks 
An African American man speaking with a female psychologist during a therapy session.
National Institute of Mental Health 
A multi-color rendering of whole brain based on functional magnetic resonance imaging scan.
National Institute of Mental Health
Colored, cross-sections of brain from functional magnetic resonance imaging data.
Vaccarino Lab, Yale University 
A close up colored scan that shows how changes in DNA work in the human brain to boost risk for mental illness.
Drs. Catherine Dulac, Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University 
A multicolored close up scan of neurons from a mouse brain.
Chen Laboratory, Penn State, University Park 
A scan of neurons (colored red) converted from glial cells using a new NeuroD1-based gene therapy in mice.
Viviana Siless, Ph.D. Anastasia Yendiki, Ph.D.MGH/Harvard, Boston Adolescent Neuroimaging of Depression and Anxiety 
A High Angular Resolution Diffusion Image (HARDI) of the human brain that shows long distance connections, or tracts, grouped on the basis of their anatomical neighborhood.
Chung Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
A colored close up of the globus pallidus externa section of a mouse brain.
Dr. Richard Watts and ABCD/Univ. of VT P.I. Dr. Hugh Garavan 
A colored MRI scan of two adolescent brains activated during a memory task.
The Center for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine 
A colorized 3D reconstruction of dendrites that shows neurons receiving input from other neurons through synapses, most of which are located along the dendrites on tiny projections called spines.
Jim Stanis/Ryan Cabeen/Arthur Toga 
A multicolored model that shows several portions of the brain’s white matter—bundles of fiber that carry nerve signals between the brain and the body, as well as within the brain itself.
Raunak Basu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 
Multicolored, distinct neural connections in a cross section of a mouse’s hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in the memory of facts and events.
Chung Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
A zoomed, colored view of many neural cell bodies and their arm-like extensions from a part of a mouse brain that’s known for its role in controlling voluntary movement.
William J. Giardino (Luis de Lecea Lab/Stanford University) 
Researchers mapped new connections in the extended amygdala related to reward-seeking and aversion. Here neurons in that pathway appear as fluorescent green in a cross-section of a mouse brain.
Jim Stanis/Ryan Cabeen/Arthur Toga 
A multicolored model that shows several portions of the brain’s white matter—bundles of fiber that carry nerve signals between the brain and the body, as well as within the brain itself.
Matthew Glasser, Ph.D., and David Van Essen, Ph.D., Washington University 
A colored functional MRI image showing areas connected to the three main senses – hearing, touch, and sight.
National Institute of Mental Health
A circle containing a brain with the words, "National Institute of Mental Health, 75 years: research, discovery, hope."
National Institute of Mental Health
Additional video courtesy of John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. NIMH.nih.gov/75years/Video/Imagecredits

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