Index – Belgium – An era has come to an end, the National Institute of Psychiatry and Addiction has been given a new name

Currently, Gyula Nyírő OPAI is responsible for the psychiatric and addiction treatment of more than 1.6 million residents. Over the years, the institute has developed a number of special profiles to fill gaps beyond its regional care tasks – the Gyula Nyírő National Psychiatry and Addiction Institute informed in a statement.

As written, among other things it started here the operation of the country’s first high-security psychiatric unit and addiction psychotherapy department, moreover, it was here that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, one of the most dynamically developing neuropsychiatric therapeutic interventions, was first introduced into domestic routine care.

Budapest XIII. the institute located in the district celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2023, its history is closely related to the development and development of domestic psychiatry, they added.

According to the announcement, in the past ten years, after the closure of the former National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, the institution took over its patient care, education, research and methodological tasks and became the leading domestic professional center in the field.

From April 2021, it operated under the name of the National Institute of Mental, Neurological and Neurosurgery, merged with the former National Institute of Clinical Neuroscience until March 1, 2024, when the American Road Unit joined Semmelweis University as the university’s new clinical block.

Gyula Nyírő OPAI, under the leadership of Ézsi Robin, Acting Director General, intends to continue to operate as a reference institution for domestic psychiatric care facilities in the future, assuming a decisive role in quality patient care, the establishment and development of good clinical practices and methodologies.