RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 75
The Departments of Anatomy and Physiology
of the medical school offer exceptional facilities
for the study of problems related to the organization
and function of the nervous system.
The Rockefeller Foundation appropriated'
378,000 toward the support of this project during
the year beginning September 1, 1935. This
grant was a continuation of aid given during the
previous year.
Medical School of the University of Michigan
Extending the Scope of Psychiatric Training
0
At the Medical School of the University of
Michigan changes and expansion in the Department
of Psychiatry were carried out under
the direction of Dr. A. M. Barrett1 to bring
psychiatric teaching and
research into more
effective relation with the various divisions
of the teaching hospital of the university and
with other excellent clinical facilities. These latter
include the large outpatient
clinic of the
hospital, which has about two thousand new
patients a year; a 1,000-bed state hospital,for
the insane situated nearby; and eight other state
institutions for the insane and the mentally defective,
which offer interesting and varied cases
for study.
1 Dr, Barrett died April 2,1936,
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