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Our purpose
We aim to go beyond primarily psychiatric disorders to include stress-related mental health concepts as well as somatic disorders that come with stress-related mental health problems.
Goals
- Link the genetic liability, environmental risk factors and staging of stress-related psychiatric disorders with stress-related consequences in other somatic disorders to derive transdiagnostic targets for interventions.
- Develop novel strategies toward biopsychosocial prevention and treatment of stress-related mental health symptoms, encompassing the entire psychopathological continuum from normative populations to those at elevated risk for psychopathology, and providing mechanistic insight to the potential selection or integration of psychotherapy, pharmacology, and brain stimulation in individualized treatment.
- Quantify the impact of individual and structural environmental challenges both in animals and humans in order to develop large-scale programs aiming to modify environmental factors or enable the individual to optimally adapt.
