World Health Organization activity in psychopharmacotherapy

1. The Division of Mental Health of the World Health Organization is developing a series of closely-linked activities concerned with research, information exchange and training in biological psychiatry, including psychopharmacology. One of the main mechanisms utilized in WHO programmes is joint work in a network of Collaborating Centres. These Collaborating Centres of WHO, which carry out projects on clinical psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry, are distributed over the different geographical regions of the world. 2. The successful development of these collaborative activities has permitted the rational integration of efforts of Collaborating Centres and the creation of optimal conditions for international collaboration towards rational treatment approaches of mental disorders.