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VIRTUAL Resilience Symposium, September 2020
6th International Symposium On Resilience Research (#resilience2020)
Check out www.lir-mainz.de/symposium for registration and updates to the program.
3rd Donders Summer School on Stress and Cognition rescheduled to 2021
The Corona pandemic has been and continues to be a challenge for all of us. Unfortunately, we had to reschedule the 3rd Donders Summer School on Stress and Cognition in Nijmegen, planned for July this year, to July 5th-9th 2021. More information will follow in due time!
Mainz (Germany), 24 September 2019
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OUR VISION
We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers with the joint goal of developing an in silico model of stress resilience. To do so, we monitor healthy at-risk individuals (18+ years old) during stressful life phases, such as transition into adulthood or higher education, training-to-street transition (police officers), or abruptly changed life situations (accident victims in recovery). Multiple longitudinal studies collect psychological, behavioural, neural, and physiological markers, and apply advanced mathematical modelling to identify key risk indicators and resilience factors. The ultimate goal is a prognostic tool for people to monitor their mental stability, and to intervene effectively before the personal „tipping point“.
WHY IT MATTERS
To this date, each year, more than half a billion people in the world are affected by anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, or addiction. These conditions often occur as a consequence of stressors, such as traumatic events, challenging life circumstances, strenuous transition phases, or physical illness. In Europe alone, stress-related disorders are believed to cause direct and indirect economic costs of about 200 billion € every year. Despite ample research efforts into the cause of these disorders, the burden on affected individuals and society as a whole has further grown. We believe that, instead of focusing on disease, we need to understand what keeps us healthy.
