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.  


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Research Research programs Stress and mental health

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

See some of the most important goals for this research program.

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Addiction psychiatry

Arnt Schellekens's research group aims to reduce the tremendous burden of addictive disorders through translational research, linking basic science with clinical practice. The group focuses on disentangling clinical heterogeneity, in order to develop personalized addiction treatment strategies.

Behavioural neuroscience

Benno Roozendaal's research group investigates the effects of stress and emotional arousal on learning and memory.

Computational psychiatry

André Marquand's research group develops analytical tools based on machine learning for the analysis of biomedical data, including neuroimaging, passive smartphone monitoring and environmental data.

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Erno Hermans

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