As Asia plays a leading role in global economic development, the scientific advances made in this region, including those involving psychiatry, should be more accessible to the rest of the world. Therefore, under the leadership of psychiatrists from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and so on, the Asian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (AsCNP) was established in 2009. Although AsCNP is the newest of the world\'s leading neuropsychopharmacological organizations, it has been growing rapidly.

Psychiatry evolves as the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and public health advance. Although neuropsychopharmacology is not the only therapeutic approach used in clinical practice, it is the primary method for understanding both the brain and the pathology underpinning neuropsychiatric disorders. In the context of rapid increases in the population and substantial changes in social structure, Asian countries arewith its great castle.

The old fishing village of Polperro with its steep, narrow streets is beautiful. The ground floors of the harbour-front houses were once fish-salting cellars. Past them you are on the South West Coast Path, which skirts the steep slopes of the Warren before reaching Talland on its lovely bay. On along a cliff walk round Hore Point and Portnadler Bay with great views over St George’s Island, before rounding the rock pools of Hannafore Beach and walking up the Looe River into West Looe.

The only buildings in Shingle Street are weatherboarded houses and a strip of coastguard cottages at the end of a narrow road. The hamlet looks out to sea across a shingle beach bright with yellow-horned poppy and white-flowered sea kale. This is