Roland Kuhn (born March 4, 1912, died October 10, 2005) - a Swiss psychiatrist who first discovered that the drug imipramine , a derivative of iminodibenzyl, which was originally tested as a potential new antipsychotic , is in fact not an antipsychotic, but an antidepressant [3 ] . He was born in Biel and died in Szczezingen.
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Roland Kuhn studied medicine in Basel , and initially wanted to do endocrinology . Psychiatry was his second specialty. Residency in the field of psychiatry, he conducted under the leadership of Jacob Chloesy, the inventor of the method of treatment for a long sleep [4] .
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- 2 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 129230200 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Cahn, Charles. Roland Kuhn, 1912–2005 (Eng.) // Neuropsychopharmacology . - Nature Publishing Group , 2006. - 30 April ( vol. 31 , no. 5 ). - P. 1096-1096 . - DOI : 10.1038 / sj.npp.1301026 .
- ↑ David., Healy ,. Let them eat prozac . - Toronto: J. Lorimer & Co. - P. 34-35. - ISBN 1550287834 .