Roland Kuhn—100th Birthday of an Innovator of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Year: 2025
Type: article
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.
Source: Psychopharmacology Bulletin
DOI: 10.64719/pb.4061
Authors: Holger Steinberg, Hubertus Himmerich
Institution: Leipzig University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2532379400