title: Roland Kuhn-100th Birthday of an Innovator of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
abstract: On the occasion of his 100th birthday this letter is to pay tribute to Swiss psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist Roland Kuhn (1912-2005), who established the antidepressant effects of imipramine starting in 1956. Since until now only monoaminergic-based antidepressants such as this substance found their way into psychopharmacological therapy, one can say that Kuhn established the lead antidepressant substance and has hence fundamentally changed clinical psychiatry and care for the mentally ill.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Steinberg is a Historian of Psychiatry, Archives for the History of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Himmerich is a Psychiatrist, Claussen-Simon-Endowed Professorship for Neurobiology of Affective Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Semmelweisstrasse 10, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steinberg
authors.affiliation: Dr. Steinberg is a Historian of Psychiatry, Archives for the History of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Himmerich is a Psychiatrist, Claussen-Simon-Endowed Professorship for Neurobiology of Affective Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Semmelweisstrasse 10, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Hubertus
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Himmerich
keywords: Roland Kuhn; antidepressants; history of pharmacopsychiatry