- Mission
Our goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying vulnerability and resilience to stress-related psychiatric disorders, and to identify targets for treatment of such disorders. Our research, which ranges from molecular biology and cell biology to human psychopathology, focuses on the effects of glucocorticoid hormones. Read more in the research section.
Introduction
News
- 7th World Congress on Stress
7th World Congress on Stress
25-27 Augustus 2010, Leiden
- LACDR research in PNAS
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Just before the holidays, researchers of the division of Medical Pharmacology published a paper in PNAS in which they reveal an important factor in the brain’s response to stress (
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- Education prize awarded to joint LUMC/LACDR course
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The synergy between LACDR and the Leiden University Medical Center, as envisioned in LCTD3, already exists with regard to teaching: the course Hormones and the Nervous System has been elected 'Best Block' of the Biomedical Science curriculum 2009.
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