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The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) is a nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1934 following conferences of committees appointed by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Neurological Association, and the then Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association.
The ABPN is one of 24 member boards of the ABMS.

The ABPN Board of Directors consists of sixteen voting members.

The nominating organizations for psychiatry are the the American College of Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association; for neurology, they are the American Neurological Association and the American Academy of Neurology.
Each of these organizations proposes nominees to serve on the Board, but the Board itself selects its members.