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The chair is embedded within the
department for Cognitive Neuroscience of Radboudumc and will closely collaborate with the
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. The past decades have shown a rapid increase in fundamental knowledge of brain function, and the interfaculty Donders Institute has played a leading role in this development in a national and international sense. The intended chair in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience aims to bridge basic and cognitive neurosciences with clinical neurosciences and psychiatry with a primary focus on human neuroimaging. It has the ambition to leverage fundamental knowledge of healthy brain function to refocus attention toward mechanisms and strategies for preventive mental health care, to establish Radboudumc as a leading national center for stress-related mental health research, and ultimately contribute to a major reduction of the vast burden of stress-related disorders. This research infrastructure is exceptionally well equipped to support the research of this chair, with state-of-the-art human neuroimaging as well as computational infrastructures.
Stress-related psychopathology is acknowledged as one of the focus areas for research at Radboudumc, which was formalized with the establishment of a Research Theme "Stress-related disorders" in 2014. This theme aims to develop an integrated, interdisciplinary and translational research program that conceptualizes stress as a critical transdiagnostic factor across a wide range of mental disorders. Researchers affiliated with the theme are experts in fields ranging from behavioral neuroscience to human cognitive and affective neurosciences, and to clinical neuroscience. By fostering formal and informal communication between these researchers and promoting joint research projects, the theme aims to integrate these research lines both conceptually and methodologically. The goal of this effort is to promote translation of insights from basic neuroscience into mental health care - from the laboratory to real world experiences. This ambition includes development of novel treatments, but in recent years is also reorienting attention toward development of new evidence-based means for primary and secondary prevention of stress-related disorders.
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