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The Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry (JSBP) was established in 1979 in order to contribute to the development of psychiatry and progression of psychiatric practice through biological research in psychiatry. The number of members was 120 at that time. Thereafter, an annual meeting has been held every year except 1985. The number of members has increased steadily reaching around 1500 for the past ten years and was 1555 in 2006. English abstracts of the annual meeting have been published in ‘Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience’. A recent development in JSBP is the movement toward collaboration with related academic societies. Thus, the 26th (2004) and 27th (2005) annual meetings of JSBP were held with the Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology (JSNP) in Tokyo and Osaka, respectively. The twenty-eighth (2006) annual meeting of JSBP (Annual President: Prof. Yuji Okazaki) was held with JSNP and the Japanese Society of Neurochemistry in Nagoya, and about 1500 researchers and clinicians participated. JSBP has been affiliated with the World Federation of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) from the beginning, and international activities have been growing due to the efforts of the successive presidents of JSBP. In particular, it is noteworthy that 12 distinguished guest speakers from abroad and about 80 researchers from other Asian countries were invited to the 27th meeting in Osaka (Annual President: Prof. Masatoshi Takeda). JSBP sincerely hopes to develop solid collaborations with other National Societies of Biological Psychiatry including those in other Asian countries and to contribute to the activities of WFSBP. For that purpose JSBP supports the invitation of researchers from Asian countries and the proposal of the members to conduct a symposium for International and World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. Parallel to the recent remarkable progress of neuroscience, biological psychiatry is now one of the most fascinating fields in science. The JSBP continuously endeavors to provide the outstanding occasions to communicate with other researchers, to facilitate understanding the etiopathogenesis of mental disorders and, through the development of new diagnostic and treatment methods, to contribute to human welfare.

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