Exploring and promoting translational and interdisciplinary approaches to better understand and target traumatic memories, with a focus on secondary prevention. It brings together experts from basic and clinical neuroscience to develop new strategies for the treatment of trauma-related disorders, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder. Its goals include organising meetings to share new research, defining optimal research designs, and collaborating on larger networks to apply for funding opportunities.
The Traumatic Stress Network initiated a NATO workshop application in early 2016 and continues to seek new funding opportunities and foster collaborations for research proposals. The Network consists of experts from various European countries, committed to optimising the use of existing knowledge across basic, clinical, and pharmacological domains.
Through the activities of our Network we have been able to bring together clinicians and scientists working on preclinical as well as clinical domains related to traumatic stress. Important activities have been the preparation of a Marie Curie grant about an approach “golden hours” for the curative treatment of anxiety and PTSD (GHO4CURE), as well as a NATO grant on “Terrorism induced Stress”. We capitalize on a golden hours approach of trauma, including novel approaches to pharmacotherapy for the relief of trauma-related disorders. Our members also published an important paper about an RDOC approach to PTSD.
Access the ECNP Knowledge Hub where you can find online courses with high-quality lectures from expert speakers, organised by the Networks.
The Traumatic Stress Network organised this ECNP Course, in order to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary approaches and research aimed at improving mental health outcomes for people in adversity.
The Traumatic Stress Network (in collaboration with the Resilience Network) organised this 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.
| Member name | Institution | City | Country |
| Iryna Frankova | Bogomolets National Medical University (BNMU) | Kyiv | Ukraine |
| K.Oguz Karamustafalioglu | Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital | Istanbul | Türkiye |
| Harm Krugers | Amsterdam | The Netherlands | |
| Raymond Mongeau | University Paris Descartes | Paris | France |
| Slawomir Murawiec | Centrum Terapii DIALOG | Warsaw | Poland |
| David Nutt | Imperial College London | London | United Kingdom |
| Mathew Samuel | Hollywood Medical Centre | Perth | Australia |
| Ulrike Schmidt | Univerisity of Bonn | Bonn | Germany |
| Victor Spoormaker | Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry | Munich | Germany |
| Eric Vermetten | Leiden University Medical Center | Leiden | The Netherlands |
| Olena Zhabenko | Kliniken Schmieder | Gailingen | Germany |
| Joseph Zohar | Chaim Sheba Medical Center | Tel Hashomer | Israel |
| Hala Kerbage | Montpellier University Hospital | Montpellier | France |
| Member name | Institution | City | Country |
| Monica Aas | King’s College London | London | United Kingdom |
| David Baldwin | University of Southampton | Southampton | United Kingdom |
| Elisabeth Binder | Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry | Munich | Germany |
| Lior Carmi | Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv | Israel |
| Dominique de Quervain | University of Basel | Basel | Switzerland |
| Maurizio Popoli | University of Milan | Milano | Italy |
| Mirjam van Zuiden | University of Utrecht | Utrecht | The Netherlands |
| Member name | Institution | City | Country |
| Robert Ursano | Uniformed Services University | Bethesda | USA |
| Member name | Institution | City | Country |
| Agata Todzia-Kornas | Military Institute of Medicine- National Research Institute in Warsaw | Warsaw | Poland |
