How your support makes a difference

Key figures

1+ billion people are affected by mental health conditions worldwide (Source: World Health Organization, 2025)

#1 cause of disability worldwide (Source: World Health Organization, 2025)

1 in 4 people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime (Source: World Health Organization, 2001)

A major public health challenge

According to recent data published by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than one billion people worldwide are living with mental health conditions (source). Disorders such as anxiety and depression have profound human and economic consequences.

In the face of these challenges, research in mentale health must accelerate.

Your donations help advance innovative approaches to better understand, diagnose, and treat mental disorders.

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A scientific cooperation foundation

Fondation FondaMental is a scientific cooperation foundation dedicated to mental health, established in 2007 at the initiative of the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education. It operates under the legal status of a public-interest foundation and carries out its activities within a strict legal framework, serving the public interest.

As such, it is authorized to receive both public and private funding (donations, sponsorship, and legacies) to support research and innovation in psychiatry.

Thanks to your donations, we take action

Supporting Fondation FondaMental means contributing to:

Improving diagnostic precision
Accelerating therapeutic innovation
Enhancing care for millions of patients

Brain imaging, digital technologies, artificial intelligence, environmental and genetic risk factors… all of these innovations are helping psychiatric research advance, bringing more precise diagnoses, personalized treatments, and real hope.

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