Topic: p.T8I mutation

Environmental stress plays a key role in the development of psychiatric disorders, and also has a negative impact on sleep integrity. Insomnia and sleep disturbances are core symptoms observed in patients with stress-related disorders. However, stress reactivity is the result of a combination of genetic and environmental influences that ultimately impacts one’s physiology and behavior in a variety of ways. In this project we will focus on stress susceptibility and how it could trigger psychiatric diseases in a peculiar gene-environment interaction.Studying glutamatergic neurotransmission, we d