brain adaptation

Stress and the Individual: Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying Differential Susceptibilities and Adaptations

Dr. Carmen Sandi leads the laboratory of Behavioral Genetis in EPFL, Lausanne. Her lab investigates the impact and mechanism whereby stress and anxiety affect brain and behavior in an integrative program involvong studies in rodents and humans. She is the founder and co-president of Swiss Stress Network, co-director of Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Synapsy. She is Chair of the ALBA Network, and pas-President of Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Program and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.