The Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (IPiN) - formerly Psychoneurological Institute - was established as an institution for psychiatric and neurological research by a decision of the Cabinet in 1951.

The establishment of the Institute was due to persistent efforts of a group of psychiatrists and neurobiologists. Among them was Professor Jerzy Konorski (1903-1973), an outstanding neurophysiologist, who conceived the idea of the Institute as a national center for promotion of basic and clinical research on mental and neurological disorders.

The aims of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology are to improve health care in the field of psychiatry and neurology and to conduct research in these and allied fields. Research methods range from molecular level to psychological and epidemiological approaches.

Different disciplines are represented by 25 departments including, among others, four departments of psychiatry, two departments of neurology, the Department of Neurotic Disorders and Psychotherapy, the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Department of Forensic Psychiatry.

Basic research, frequently in cooperation with other clinical units, is conducted by several departments and laboratories such as the Department of Neurochemistry, the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, the Department of Genetics, the Department of Neuropathology, the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology.

List of Specialities and Departments:

• Department of Neurochemistry
• Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System
• Department of Genetics
• Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
• Department of Neuropathology
• Department of Neuroradiology
• Department of Health Care Organization
• Department of Psychology and Mental Health Promotion
• Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
• Department of Psychiatry
• Department of Neurotic Disorders and Psychotherapy
• Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Department of Forensic Psychiatry
• Department of Neurology
• Laboratory of Pharmacotherapy
• Community Psychiatry Unit

• Pharmacotherapy
• Psychotherapy
• General Radiology and Ultrasound
• Computerized Tomography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Biopsy and segments from brain operations (including tumours)
• Ultrastructural biopsy of skin, muscles and peripheral nervuses
• Neurouimaging (CT/MRI)
• Ultrasonographic examinations of external and internal cranial arteries
• Echocardiography
• Holter method examinations
• Digital fluorography
• X-ray chest (p-a, lateral, tomography)
• X-ray abdominal
• X-ray spinal column: cervical, thoracic, lumbar
• X-ray bones: extremities superior and inferior; joints: shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, ankle
• Urography
• X-ray tomography (chest, ears, larynx, temporo-mandibular joint)
• Gastro-duodenal barium X-ray examination
• Barium enema contrast examination of the colon

• Jan Czesław Czabała
• Anna Członkowska
• Adam Frączek
• Andrzej Jakubik
• Marek Jarema
• Wojciech Kostowski
• Irena Namysłowska
• Adam Płaźnik
• Stanisław Pużyński
• Jacek Wciórka
• Hanna Wehr
• Jacek Zaremba