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Editorial: International Neuropsychiatric Association || FREE PAPER ||

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Author: Perminder Sachdev

Published Date May 2005 Volume 2005:1(3) Pages 191 - 192
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S

Perminder Sachdev

School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; email p.sachdev@unsw.edu.au

As professional organizations go, the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA) is young, having been formed in 1998 when a group of neuropsychiatrists met in Toronto, Canada, to consider the status of their profession. There was a shared sense of optimism, with a feeling that their time had come. They seemed ready to proclaim their professional identity in the form of an association and to meet the immediate challenges.