Introduction

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.

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Marius Tausk Symposium 1 September 2010
Marius Tausk Guest Professor Rachel Yehuda

STRESS & PTSD: BATTLEFIELD OF REASON AND EMOTION

Marius Tausk Guest Professor: Rachel Yehuda

Location: Rivierduinen, Oegstgeest, Netherlands

More information: w.rodger@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
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KNAW Grant for Judith ter Horst

Dr. Judith ter Horst, post-doc (EUROSTRESS) at the Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden received a grant from the KNAW, Dr. J.L. Dobberke Stichting voor Vergelijkende Psychologie, to study Sex and Stress: Memory systems and the role of the mineralocorticoid receptor in female mice.

NENS Stipend Natascha Diamantopoulou

NENS Stipends 2010: Current call for applications has been concluded.
Anastasia (Natascha) Diamantopoulou, guest PhD at the Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden was awarded a stipend for her work entitled: In situ hybridization for CRH mRNA in brain slices of stressed rats.

7th World Congress on Stress

7th World Congress on Stress

25-27 Augustus 2010, Leiden

www.stress2010.com