The majority of research activities is organized under Department of Research and Development. This department has seven units; Three competence centres, three research units and one unit for education. The administration is situated at Gaustad, while the units are located at Gaustad, Ullevål and Majorstuen.

In some other departments the research activities are directly connected to clinical activities. This holds true for research on eating disorders, organized under RASP, National Center for personality disorders and National center for hearing impairment and mental health. These research activities are organized under Center for regional functions, and the research activities are coordinated by the head of research Lars Lien.
Department of Research and Development cooperates closely with Institute of Clinical Medicine at University of Oslo. Most of the employees works both for Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo. The university unit is lead by head of research, and additionally five leaders are heads of subunits corresponding to the hospital units. The division has a mutual research comittee, and there are 16 mutual research units. Each researcher is a member of a research unit.

The aims of the department is to help Division A to perform its three main duties; Treatment, education and research. The department aims to contribute to Division A being a university clinic; a learning organisation wit an evidence based practice. The aim is to be professional driving force in Norway, which provides new knowledge and contributes to implement newly acquired knowledge in clinical practice.

The ambition is to combine very specialized research and basic research with more close to practice clincal research. We want to create robust research milieus and simultaneously stiumlate the curios clinicain. Psychological, biological and social aspects will be integreted (translational research).

Jan Ivar Røssberg Head of Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction	Egil W. Martinsen Head of Research and Development, Division of Mental Health and Addiction

Research units at the Division of Mental Health and Addiction:

• Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research Unit
• General Psychiatric Research Units
• Psychosis and Clinical Genetics Research Units
• Eating Disorders Research Units
• Addiction Treatment Research Units
• Suicide and Prevention Research Unit