Resilience Network

Seeking to advance understanding of how individuals overcome stress and adversity. It focuses on the complex interplay of psychological, neurobiological, and environmental factors that contribute to stress resilience, which is relevant across a range of psychiatric and somatic disorders. The Network fosters collaboration to identify the biological, psychological, and environmental determinants of resilience and develop novel therapeutic strategies to enhance resilience in vulnerable populations.

History

The Network was established in 2019 to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to advance the understanding of resilience and promote cross-border collaborations to develop effective interventions for improving mental and physical health outcomes. 

Every person is familiar with the waxing and waning of stress and adversity, as it is and has always been, an integral part of our daily lives as humans. Relatively little is known what drives stress resilience, and which biological, psychological, and environmental factors drive an individual’s resilience capacity. We aim to combine knowledge, efforts and share data, but also join efforts to emphasize the importance of fundamental and applied resilience research to funding agencies, the government and the general public.

Christiaan Vinkers, the Netherlands.

Courses

Access the ECNP Knowledge Hub where you can find online courses with high-quality lectures from expert speakers, organised by the Networks.

Resilience: from neurobiology to clinical practice

The Resilience Network (in collaboration with the Traumatic Stress Network) organised an ECNP Course, aiming to foster interdisciplinary collaboration to understand the interplay between stress and resilience in different contexts, how to operationalise and measure it, but also its underlying (neuro)biological mechanisms. 

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Core members
Member name Institution City Country
Igor Branchi  Istituto Superiore di Sanità Roma Italy
Patrizia Campolongo

Sapienza University of Rome

Roma Italy
John Cryan University College Cork Cork Ireland
Nina Dalkner Medical University Graz Graz Austria
Dominique de Quervain  University of Basel Basel Switzerland
Katharina Domschke  University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany
Iryna Frankova Bogomolets National Medical University (BNMU)  Kyiv Ukraine
Corina Greven Radboud UMC Nijmegen The Netherlands 
Oliver Howes King's College London London United Kingdom
Nicole Leibold Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands
Mirko Manchia  University of Cagliari Cagliari Italy
Luisa Pinto  University of Minho Braga Portugal
Mathias V. Schmidt Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich Germany
Hale Yapıcı Eser Koç University School of Medicine Istanbul Türkiye
Shell members
Member name Institution City Country
Therese van Amelsvoort Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands
Early Career Academy members
Member name Institution City Country
Joeri Bordes Neurocentre Magendie Inserm Bordeaux France
Lejla Colic Jena University Hospital Jena Germany
Marieke Klein Radboud UMC Nijmegen The Netherlands
Milou Sep Amsterdam UMC- location VUmc Amsterdam The Netherlands
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