The development of modern psychopharmacology was triggered by two major discoveries: the psychomimetic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) in 1943 and the therapeutic effects of chlorpromazine in 1952. In his opening address to the 1st CINP Congress in Rome, Rothlin pointed out that these discoveries gave "a great impetus for any kind of scientific approach to brain research" and had "revolutionary consequences in the treatment of psychotic patients". The incentive they provided "was not limited to theoretical and practical medical sciences but caused an even greater stimulus to the imagination of chemists, leading to the production of new compounds with a speed that neither pharmacological, biochemical nor clinical investigations could equitably follow. " The possibility to induce psychopathology by the administration of pharmacological agents and to control naturally occurring psychopathol ogy by drugs opened unforeseen possibilities for brain research and a new era in psychiatry. In psychiatry, the new psychotropic drugs with their increasingly better defined behavioral, neurophysiological and biochemi cal actions have provided a new means for therapeutically influencing and systematically studying psychopathological conditions, whereas in the basic sciences, neuropharmacological research, directed to reveal the action mechanism of new drugs, brought about unprecedented progress in the identification of the morphological substrate of different brain func tions. It also set the stage for the exploration of possible correlations between behavioral, including psychopathological, and neurochemical events.

History of CINP: From Rome to Munich

The 1st Congress - Rome 1958
The 2nd Congress - Basle 1960
The 3rd Congress - Munich 1962
The 4th Congress - Birmingham 1964
The 5th Congress - Washington 1966
The 6th Congress - Tarragona 1968
The 7th Congress - Prague 1970
The 8th Congress - Copenhagen 1972
The 9th Congress - Paris 1974
The 10th Congress - Quebec 1976
The 11th Congress - Vienna 1978
The 12th Congress - Gothenburg 1980
The 13th Congress - Jerusalem 1982
The 14th Congress - Florence 1984
The 15th Congress - San Juan 1986
The 16th Congress - Munich 1988
Towards the 17th Congress - Kyoto 1990
CINP Today
Africa
Americas - Canada
Americas - Latin Americas
Americas - United States
Asia - Far East
Asia - Israel
Australia
Europe - Benelux Countries
Europe - Czechoslovakia
Europe - Denmark, Finland and Norway
Europe - France
Europe - German-Speaking Countries
Europe - Hungary, Romania and Turkey
Europe - Italy
Europe - Poland
Europe - Portugal and Spain
Europe - Sweden
Europe - United Kingdom
Europe - Yugoslavia
Concluding Remarks.