Welcome Address

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to invite you to join the XXVI Congress of the CINP and as a special event to celebrate with us the 50th Anniversary of the CINP, whose foundation in 1958 marked the beginning of modern psychopharmacology.

Munich has been chosen as one of the finest locations to host this great event. The city has a 100-year old relationship with psychiatry, represented by the outstanding researchers and psychiatrists Emil Kraepelin and Alois Alzheimer, who spent a great part of their active lives together at Emil Kraepelin’s Munich Hospital. This rich tradition combined with the ongoing scientific commitment to Biological Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, the Technical University, and the Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology as well as further world-famous neuroscience institutes, makes Munich an ideal place for the CINP congress from a scientific point of view. Furthermore, the city has an oustanding relationship with art and culture. Munich thus offers a unique opportunity to combine all aspects of modern psy-chiatry with famous art and culture. From the Old Pina-kothek up to the recently opened Modern Pinakothek every aspect of art is represented. July, in addition, is the most interesting month of the year, with a number of cultural acti-vities going on such as Open Air Concerts, Biergartens and the famous Opera Festival (please see details on page 36). Thus, with its surrounding lakes and mountains and its numerous cultural attractions, Munich will provide a very exciting venue for the CINP congress delegates. 

The Scientific Programme will cover all aspects of treatment of CNS disorders from basic to clinical research, and the newest concepts for improving the life of patients with mental and neurological disorders will be presented. Through symposia, poster sessions, educational workshops and meet the expert sessions, the Congress will bring together basic and clinical scientists from around the world. In addition, highly interesting scientific symposia, satellite events and ex-hibitions will be organized by pharmaceutical companies, offering new and valuable information to the audience.

The venue of the congress is the very modern internatonal congress centre in Munich, which has excellent meeting facilities for the delegates.

We cordially invite you to the XXVI Congress of the CINP in Munich in 2008.

Prof. Torgny H. Svensson, MD, PhD
CINP President

Prof. Hans-Jürgen Möller, MD, PhD 
Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, CINP Secretary