Giampaolo Perna elected President of the Collegium Internationale Activitatis Nervosae Superioris (CIANS) for the years 2022-23.CIANS was organized in 1958 and formally founded in 1960, is the oldest international  society in the field of behavioural  neuroscience, integrative physiology and psychosomatic medicine. Its purpose is to foster the interdisciplinary and biomedical science and to the education of social and health care professionals. It emphasized integrative approaches to these problems in order to understand how and through which mechanisms psychosocial factors and stress impact on behaviour, homeostasis and health.