Main Focus
It is today undisputed that stress contributes significantly to
the development of psychiatric disorders. On the other hand, it is still
largely unknown how specific genetic variants or environmental factors impact
on the vulnerability or resilience of an individual to environmental
challenges. Using different stress or transgenic mouse models combined with
state-of-the-art readouts, we study the behavioural, neuroendocrine and
molecular basis of individual stress vulnerability and resilience.