National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression

The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), now the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF), is the United States’ largest non-governmental funder of mental health research, having awarded over $430 million across 6,200+ grants to more than 5,100 scientists worldwide since 1987. NARSAD-funded Distinguished Investigator grants supported early research into ketamine’s antidepressant mechanism at Columbia University, as well as studies of salvinorin A pharmacology and ketamine augmentation of electroconvulsive therapy for depression.