The Trust

The Psychiatry Research Trust raises funds to support a wide range of research projects investigating the causes of and seeking better treatments for mental illness and brain disease.

The Psychiatry Research Trust (PRT) are based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and was set up by a Trust Deed dated 20th January 1982. It raises funds for research into all aspects of mental illness and brain disorder undertaken at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and its associated Mental Health Trust (South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust), and has a special interest in developing the young researchers of tomorrow.

Our Mission

With one in four of us likely to be direct sufferers experiencing mental illness, these disorders are more common than many assume - they are part of everyone's life in some way.

Our target is not just to find better treatments for sufferers but also to understand the underlying causes of mental illness and brain disease with the goal of finding means of prevention’s and cures for these illnesses.